Raymond - Raymonde
Oil on canvas? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Raymond - Raymonde.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas ?
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 29 cm ? ( Ceroni, Patani, Parisot 37 x 29)
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani / 1915 " bottom left and the text "RAYMOND" in a white rectangle in bottom right
- Present location
- Private Collection
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 89 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 70 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 56 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 12/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 60 |
| 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
- Paul Guillaume coll. Paris
- Private coll. Monaco / MIlano?
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.
- Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 141
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 89 (dated in 1916)2
- Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 9
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 443
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 704
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 565
- Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 103 - no. 696
- Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985 no. 10
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 12/19157
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 608
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 319
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 200710
Exhibitions
- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - no. 20 titled Raymonde
- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 - no. 32
- Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 9
- Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 11
- London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 11
Notes
no. 291 in D'Atri papers as Raymond - 35.5 x 29 - dated 1916 - provenance in Paul Guillaume
Signature of the painting:
Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)
This is one of those paintings that are extremely rare to see a new image.
Usually is said by experts that is Raymond Radiguet portrait, but the painting shows a grown up man, not a boy.
Link to the sitter
biography
The sitter was born in 1903 and this painting is dated by Modigliani in 1915 so the sitter was 12 years?, so this investigation records another person not Raymond Radiguet.
Biographers say he lived in Val de Marne (close to Paris) until 1917.
This is a photo of Radiguet with Cocteau in 1923 (8 years later to the painting):
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 -1915 ?
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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- 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.
- Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- 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.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.