Portrait of Picasso
Oil on cardboard — 1914-5?
Identification
- Title
- English: Picasso portrait.
- Date
- 1914-5?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 43.2 x 26.7 cm
- Signature
- Unsigned
- Present location
- Private Collection France?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Frank Burty Haviland, Paris & Ceret
- Perls Galleries, New York
- Sale: Sotheby's 10th of May 1995 Lot 336
- Private Collection ?
- Sale Sotheby's - Impressionist and Modern Art - Paris 02 jul 2008, - Sale: PF8008 - Lot 11
- Estimate: 700.00 - 1.000.000 Euro. Result: Unsold
- Text under the Price:
- Cette œuvre sera incluse au catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint d'Amedeo Modigliani par R en préparation au Wildenstein Institute.
- (text from the
- year 2008, Wildenstein no longer extent certificates - It no longer even exist since 2016 so this investigation records it will now have a MMR Institute Certification)
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.
- Museo Progressivo d'Arte Contemporanea, Modigliani gli anni della scultura, Livorno, 1984, no. 25, p. 94
Exhibitions
- Tokyo, Galerie Tokoro, Modigliani-Utrillo-Kisling, 1980, n. 7
- Livorno, Museo Progressivo d'Arte Contemporanea, Modigliani gli anni della scultura, 1984, no. 25, p. 94
Notes
There are other Picasso portraits from 1915.
This painting was presented or rediscovered by Jeanne Modigliani in the first 80´s.
This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration)
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
