Identification

Published titles

English: The Flower Vendor (smaller canvas); The Flower Vendor; The Florist.
French: La Bouquetière.

Date

Dated 1919 in Lanthemann. The D’Atri papers date a related entry 1917.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

Galerie Charpentier 1958 recorded 64.5 × 54 cm. No other secure measurement is given.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right (unconfirmed).

Present location

Private collection. An “A.R. collection” is mentioned, without documentation.

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. Not documented.
2. Possibly an A.R. Collection.
3. Private collection.

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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 416, dated 1919, as La Bouquetière.¹

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 53.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 17.
• Vitoria, Sala Fundación Caja Vital, L’Atelier de Montparnasse, 2003 (this investigation notes a possible connection with Parisot).
• Vigo, Centro Cultural Caixanova, 2003 (same reservation).

Notes

Listed as no. 158 in the D’Atri papers, as La Marchande de fleurs, 65 × 54 cm, dated 1917; this investigation states that the provenance has been mixed with the other flower-vendor composition (1919-w-88).

This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person and, in several cases, not even in a reliable colour reproduction.

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.