Identification

Title

English: Raimondo.

Date

1915 ? ( R 1915- other experts and 1955 exhib in 1916)

Medium

Oil on cardboard (R oil on paper)

Dimensions

51.5 x 33 cm ?

Signature

Signed "MODIGLIANI" bottom left in red and text "RAIMONDO / MC" in black and white

Present location

Private Collection?

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. R mentions the property of Guillaume on the basis of a photo he does not publish as usual in his "private" investigations.
2. James Alsdorf Coll. Chicago
3. ( Roy mentions the property in 1958- already in 1955 exhib)

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.

• Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 58 (dated in 1916)
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 61¹
• Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1977, p. 46 (dated in 1916 and as oil on paperboard? = cardboard)²
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 212-213³
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 21, p. 55⁴

Exhibitions

• Bern, Modigliani Campigli Sironi, Kunsthalle Bern, 1955 - no. 8 (dated 1916 in Alsdorf Coll.)
• Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959 (not sure)
• New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971 - no. 13 (dated in 1916 - as oil on board)
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 34
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 27
• Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016
• Budapest, Modigliani, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016
• Helsinki, Modigliani, Ateneum Art Museum, 2016-2017

Notes

Not in D'Atri

Signature of the painting:

Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color

Link to the sitter

biography

The sitter was born in 1903 and this painting is dated by experts in 1915 so the sitter was 12 years?

Biographers say he lived in Val de Marne (close to Paris) until 1917.

The Letters MC ?

There is a sketch for this painting? at the Barnes coll. in Philadelphia - Parisot has published this drawing at his CR as no. 4/15 but this investigation has no knowledge if he has published the painting.

This is a photo of Radiguet with Cocteau in 1923:

Radiguet in 1921-22:

Radiguet in 1921:

Radiguet by Picasso in 1920:

There are other 2 portraits attributed to Modigliani of Radiguet:

Raymond dated in 1915

Raymond dated in 1910

Some experts even mention the claim recorded in secondary literature that Radiguet shared the love of Hastings with Modigliani and that his novel "the devil in the flesh"

was related to that situation.

Points recorded against that identification:

1.- Hastings was not married to Modigliani

2.- Hastings was long

divorced

3.- Radiguet was 12?

4.- Hastings was far from the sinner affection reflected in the novel.

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