Monsieur Cérusier
Oil on canvas?, 1919
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Monsieur Cérusier; Seated Man; Portrait of a Man; Painter Sérusier.
- Date
- Pfannstiel dated the work 1917. Ceroni, Patani and Parisot date it 1919. Lanthemann dates it 1918.
- Medium
- Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).
- Dimensions
- Usually given as 99 × 65 cm. Pfannstiel: 92 × 60 cm. Ceroni: 100 × 65 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 186 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 319 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 287 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 2/1919 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 299 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Not documented before the Loeb Collection, Paris.
- Pierre Collection, Paris.
- Galerie Bing, Paris, 1927–29.
- Dr Girardin Collection, Paris.
- Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1953, lot 25.
- Paul Pétridès Gallery, Paris (recorded 1955).
- Edward G. Robinson Collection, Los Angeles.
- Hiroshima Museum of Art.
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.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 31; 1956, no. 186, dated 1917, 92 × 60 cm.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 117; Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, no. 287.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 319, related by him to Dr Brabander as the same sitter.
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 299.
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 2/1919.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Bing, 1927 (unconfirmed).
- Bern, Kunsthalle, 1955, no. 24.
- Atlanta Art Association, 1960.
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Los Angeles County Museum, 1961, no. 43.
- Tokyo, Nichido Gallery, Robinson Collection, 1973, no. 22.
- Tokyo, National Museum, 1985; Nagoya, 1985, no. 120.
- Aomori Museum of Art, 2018.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 2871, as M. Cerusier, 92 × 60 cm, dated 1916, provenance Loeb → Pierre → Bing 1929.
This investigation treats this seated man and the Estorick Brabander head as the same sitter and offers no explanation for the change of name.
The original page of this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where the sources disagree, both readings are given.
