Caryatid

Identification

Title

Caryatid.

Date

1911–13?
The 1958 exhibition is recorded as dating it 1910.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

93 × 52 cm, recorded with a query.

Signature

Unsigned, recorded with a query.

Present location

Not recorded in this investigation. Provenance last places the work in a private collection, Milan.

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. Private collection, Milan (as recorded in this investigation).

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.

• Franco Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, 1958, p. 22.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 527.²

Exhibitions

• Marseille, Musée Cantini, Modigliani, 1958, no. 40.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, curated by Franco Russoli, 1958, no. 7.
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959 (recorded with a query).

Notes

Lanthemann 1970 records under no. 528 a work described in this investigation as almost identical.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

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