Roger Dutilleul

Identification

Published titles

English: Roger Dutilleul.

Date

1918 in Ceroni, Patani and Parisot. Lanthemann and the 2013 Sotheby’s catalogue date the canvas 1919; the sale notice places the sitting on 16–18 June 1919, the date also given by MR. Pfannstiel dated it 1920.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100.8 × 64.8 cm (also published as 100.4 × 64.7 and 100 × 65 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Bruce and Robbi Toll Collection, Philadelphia. Purchased at Sotheby’s, Paris, 4 December 2013, lot 11, for €6,481,500 (sale total confirmed).

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Roger Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
2. Private collection by descent, Paris.
3. Sotheby’s, Paris, 4 December 2013, lot 11, sold for EUR 6,481,500.
4. Bruce and Robbi Toll Collection, Philadelphia.

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 357, dated 1920.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 112.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 357, dated 1919.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 274, dated 1918.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 43/1918.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 287.⁶
• R. Chiappini, ed., Lugano 1999, no. 57.
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 95, dated June 1919.⁷
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 46.⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 34.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, L’Art moderne italien, 1950.
• Paris, Galerie Schmit, 1973, no. 37, and 1986, no. 43.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 70.
• Lugano, 1999, no. 57.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 95.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 66.
• New York, Toronto and Washington, 2004–05.
• Tokyo and Osaka, 2008, no. 60.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Budapest and Helsinki, 2016–17.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani Unmasked, 2018.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Holes are visible at the four corners.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.