Tuscan Road

Identification

Title

English: Tuscan Road. French: Petite route Toscane / la route de Salvini. Italian: Stradina Toscana / Paesaggio Toscano.

Date

1898 - 1901?

Medium

Oil on cardboard

Dimensions

21 × 37 cm? (Parisot / Patani 21 × 35 - 1958 exhib. 20 × 35 - 2005 exhib. 20.8 × 35.7)

Signature

Unsigned

Present location

Italy, Livorno - Pinacoteca Civica Giovanni Fattori

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. Acquired from Aristide Sommati by the Comune of Livorno no. Mun.Li 489 (1957)

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.

• Modigliani J., Modigliani sans légende, Gründ, Paris, 1961, pp. 34–35
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 42
• Catalogue Musée Saint- Georges, page 47, 1980
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 123
• Catalogue Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris 1981, page 101- no. 1
• Parisot, Modigliani, caja de pensiones, ed. Poligrafía, Barcelona, 1983, p. 73 - no. 1
• Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985
• Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, Editions ACR Paris, 1987, page 214
• Parisot, Modigliani, 1988,page 25, Editions Graphis Arte, Livorno
• Orion Press, Tokyo 1989
• Catalogue Exp. F. Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1990, page 77, no.3
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990-91, p- 56 - no. 85
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94, no. 1 (incorrect size 21 × 35 cm)
• Werner, Modigliani, prestel, 1991, p. 56
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 167
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005 -dated 1898 - p. 888
• Parisot, Modigliani la vita. Le opere, Carte Segrete Editore, 2006, illustrated.
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007

Exhibitions

• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 1a
• Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - no. 1
• Liege, Musée Saint-Georges, 1980 - no. 1
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, 1981 - no. 1
• Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 1
• Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 1
• Tokyo, National Museum, 1985 - no. 2
• Aichi, Art Gallery, 1985
• Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - no. 3
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani, 1991 - no. 1
• Zürich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani, 1991 - no.
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004 - no. 1
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005 - no. 1
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005 - no. 1

Notes

The Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, Livorno (Villa Mimbelli), records Stradina Toscana (Tuscan Road), oil on cardboard, about 21 × 37 cm, traditionally attributed to Modigliani and acquired from Aristide Sommati in 1957 (municipal no. Mun.Li 489). Open sources give the same dimensions; Parisot, Patani and some exhibitions record 21 × 35 cm or 20.8 × 35.7 cm. The museum continues to exhibit it as an early work.

No further documentary note is recorded in this investigation beyond the fields above. Where sources disagree, both readings are given.