Boy Seated with Cap

Identification

Published titles

English: Boy Seated with Cap; Young Man Seated with a Cap; Young Boy Seated; Young Man.
French: Garçon assis avec une casquette; Jeune homme assis à la casquette.

Date

Pfannstiel, Ceroni and Patani date the work 1918; Lanthemann and the D’Atri papers date it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Private collection, France.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris (recorded 1927).
3. Private collection, France.

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.

• André Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1926, pl. 26.¹
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Hoepli, 1927, as Young Man, Netter Collection.²
• Raffaello Franchi, Arnaud, 1947, pl. 37.³
• Jean Cocteau, Modigliani, Paris, Hazan, 1950, pl. 21.⁴
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 271, as Young Man Seated (Young Man with a Cap), dated 1918.⁵
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 412, dated 1919.⁶
• Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, no. 281, dated 1918.⁷
• Jean Dalevèze, Modigliani, Lausanne, 1971, p. 27.
• Douglas Hall, Phaidon, 1979, pl. 44.⁸
• Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 83, p. 157.
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, as Young Man Seated with a Cap, dated 1918, no. 292.⁹
• R. Chiappini, ed., Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999, p. 114, no. 55.
• Mason Klein, The Jewish Museum, 2004–2005, p. 149, pl. 65, dated 1918.¹⁰
• Victoria Soto Caba, Libsa, 2007.¹¹

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 53.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 45.
• Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 83.
• Japan touring exhibition, 1992–93, no. 38 (Tobu).
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 55. (Chiappini / MR)
• New York, Toronto and Washington, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004–2005.

Notes

Not the Detroit Young Man with a Cap (61 × 37.8; 1919-w-91).

Listed as no. 53 in the D’Atri papers, as Young Man with Beret, 100 × 65 cm, dated 1919, provenance Netter.

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.