Landscape of Cagnes

Identification

Published titles

English: Landscape of Cagnes.

Date

1919 in Ceroni, Patani and later exhibition catalogues. Galerie Charpentier 1958 dated the work 1917–18.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed in this investigation.

Dimensions

45.7 × 27.9 cm, unconfirmed. Ceroni, Patani, Klein and Parisot give 46 × 29 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom left. This investigation notes a distinctive calligraphic d.

Present location

Private collection?

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. J. Guérin Collection, Paris (recorded by 1958 and still cited in 1981).
2. Perls Galleries, New York (recorded 1985–91).
3. Private collection? (recorded by 2004).

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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 292, size given as 46 × 29 cm.¹
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 80.
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 140, no. 88.²
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 305.³
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 163, pl. 79, size 46 × 29 cm.⁴
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate 2017, p. 165.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 175.⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 58, dated 1917–18.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 80.
• Tokyo, National Museum, and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985, no. 122.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 102.
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 79.
• Washington, The Phillips Collection, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2005.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Modigliani y su tiempo, 2008.
• Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, 2009, no. 119.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

This investigation draws attention to the form of the letter d in the signature.

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