Sketch for the portrait of Diego Rivera

Identification

Title

English: Sketch for Diego Rivera portrait.

Date

1914 (Diego Rivera dated in 1916)

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni oil on canvas)

Dimensions

100.2 x 81.3 cm - MASP museum (Ceroni, Patani, R 100 x 79)

Signature

Unsigned

Present location

MASP, São Paulo, Brazil ( no. MASP.00147)

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. Coll. Francis Carco, Paris
2. Sale: Drouot, Collection Francis Carco : tableaux, aquarelles, dessins et estampes modernes - 2/03/1925, p. 29
3. Netter Collection, Paris ?
4. Galerie Percier, Paris (1934)?
5. Galerie de France, Paris
6. (1944-45)
7. Mario Dedini Coll.
8. MASP- Donation, Mario Dedini
9. (1952)

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.

• Palais des beaux-arts, Bruxelles, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. 1933, no. 18 (Dated 1916)
• Galerie de France, Paris, Modigliani Peintures, 1944-45, no. 1 (size 100 x 81 cm)
• Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1953, p. 69
• Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles 1954, p.
• 91
• Central Museum, Utrecht 1954, p.
• Kunstmuseum, Bern 1954, pl. 61
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1954, pl. 102
• Descargues, Paris, 1951, pl. 32
• Descargues, Paris, 1954, pl. 32
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 28 (dated at the end of 1914)
• Roy, Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 36
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 322
• Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, pl. 30 ( dates in 1914-1915)
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967, p. 76
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, 1968, p. 84
• Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion. 1969, p. 30
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 494
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 41 (dated in 1914)
• Mann, Modigliani, London, 1980, p. 986
• Zurcher, Editeur Hazan Paris, 1980, no. 3
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 207
• Roy Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p.
• 38
• Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions Paris 1987, p 1127
• Parisot,
• Graphis Arte, 1988. p. 71
• Buisson, la Scuola di parigi e Modigliani,
• Graphis Arte, 1989, p. 101
• Modigliani, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1989, no. 6
• Diehl, Modigliani, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989, p. 30
• Catalogue exposition Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1990, p. 106, no. 34
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 66 - no. 188
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 3/1914
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 4610
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 5111
• Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen Cologne, 2000, p. 42
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.176-177, no. 1812
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, 2007

Exhibitions

• Bruxelles, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - no. 18 (Dated 1916)
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 10
• Paris, Modigliani Peintures, Galerie de France, 1945-46 - no. 1
• Paris, Musée del’Orangerie, 1953
• Chefs-d'œuvre duMusée d’Art de São Paulo, Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles 1954
• Utrecht, Central Museum 1954
• Berne, Kunstmuseum 1954
• Londres, The Tate Gallery 1954
• Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle 1954
• Milano, Palazzo Reale, Modigliani, 1954
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1957
• Liege, Musée Saint-Georges,1980 p. 43, no. 44
• Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani, 1989 - no. 6
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990 - no. 34
• Düsseldorf , Amedeo Modigliani, Art Gallery of Nordrhein-Westfalen 1991 - no. 12
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthaus , 1991 - no. 12
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 18
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 15

Notes

no. 18 in D’Atri papers dated 1914-16 - titled Diego Rivera, peintre mexicain, size 100 x 80 - Provenance in Galerie Percier 1933

MR in the published exhibition text at L'Ange au visage grave, Paris, 2002, p.176:

" In 1914, Modigliani

used to stay at Rivera's home, in the 16 Rue du Saint-Gothard. he executed this portrait there..."

MASP files have a letter by Diego Rivera itself saying the next lines:

Mexico, 2nd September 1953

Mr. P. M. Bardi

Art Museum

São Paulo, Brazil.

The photo you sent me is the original oil painting by Modigliani, my portrait for which I posed in my studio where he worked frequently

at 26 rue du depart, in Montparnasse next to the railway station.

It was painted in the year of 1916.

Sincerely

Diego Rivera

in the same file the secretary of Rivera informs that there are 3 other portraits of Diego by Modigliani

1.- J. Netter Coll, Paris (spelling mistake is Netter Coll.)

2.- Galerie Pierre, Paris (probably Percier?)

3.- Van de Klip collection, Brussels

( Parisot in his CR makes a mix with the provenance of both paintings)

Photos of Diego Rivera from 1916 and 1919:

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) confirms Portrait of Diego Rivera (inv. MASP.00147), oil on paper, 100.5 × 81 cm, dated 1916, gift of Mario Dedini, 1952. Diego Rivera’s 1953 letter to P. M. Bardi states the portrait was painted in his Montparnasse studio in 1916.

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.