Portrait of Madame Othon Friesz. La Marseillaise
Oil on paper? — 1915
Identification
- Title
- French: Portrait of Madame Othon Friesz. La Marseillaise.
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- Oil and pencil or Chercoal? on paper
- Dimensions
- 42.5 x 26 cm (R 43.5 x 26.5 - Ceroni 42 x 27 cm)
- Signature
- Unsigned, text in top " LA MARSELLAISE" dated 15th July " 15 GIUGNO" in lower sides text: left "Hommage" right "respectueux" in cetral left the text: "MADAME FRIESZ" - under the text la marseillaise there is another text line " il Fiume a..." ?
- Present location
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA ( Inv. no. 1974.388)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 671 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 85 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 87 |
| 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
- Hanley Coll. (until 1974)
- Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
- The T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Memorial Gift to the People of Denver and the area, no. Inv. 1974.388
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.
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 6711
- Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1972 - no. 852
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 873
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 - no. 22 p. 186-1874
- Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Ed. Carte Secrete, Milano 2006- no. 105
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 20076
Exhibitions
- Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 23 p. 186-187
- Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 19
- Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008
- Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - no. 53
Notes
Not in D' Atri papers ?
The Denver Art Museum confirms Portrait of Madame Othon Friesz. La Marseillaise (inv. 1974.388), 1915, The T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Memorial Gift to the People of Denver and the area, 1974.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.