Identification

Published titles

English: The actor Gaston Modot.
French: Gaston Modot with a beret.

Date

1918.

Medium

The Centre Pompidou records oil on canvas, 92.7 × 53.6 cm, signed upper right, dated [1918]. This investigation describes a textured cardboard support. Patani, Ceroni, Parisot, Lanthemann and MR record oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92.7 × 53.6 cm (Ceroni, Lanthemann, Patani, Parisot: 92 × 54 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Centre Pompidou, Paris, inv. AM 2002-128. Accepted from Alex Maguy-Glass in lieu of tax (dation), 2002.

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. M. Gouthier Collection, Brussels / Brazil.
2. Wescott Collection, New Jersey (by 1954).
3. Gouthier Collection, Brussels (by 1958).
4. Alex Maguy Collection, Paris.
5. Centre Pompidou, Paris, inv. AM 2002-128, dation of Alex Maguy-Glass, 2002.

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.

• James Thrall Soby, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art / MoMA, 1951, p. 52.
• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, no. 48.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 138.²
• Jacques Lipchitz, Modigliani, 1966, p. 14.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 317, dated 1918.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 279 (this investigation also prints no. 278 against this title).⁴
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, exhibition catalogue, 1981, p. 152.
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 188.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 45/1918.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 290, dated 1918.⁷
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate Modern, 2017, p. 97.⁸

Exhibitions

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Modigliani, 1954, no. 7, as Portrait of an actor.
• Tokyo, Grand Magasin Seibu, 1968, no. 23.
• Kyoto, National Museum of Art, 1968.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 74.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013.
• Pisa, BLU Palazzo d’arte e cultura, 2014–15.
• Villeneuve d’Ascq, LaM, 2016.
• Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016.
• Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015.
• Helsinki, Ateneum, 2016–17.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas. This investigation records the holes as covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records another portrait of the same sitter.

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