Wife and Husband (verso Caryatid rossa)
Oil on canvas — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Wife and Husband (verso Caryatid rossa).
- Date
- 1915 ? ( dated in 1913)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80 x 58.5 cm
- Signature
- Unsigned?
- Present location
- Private Collection San Francisco
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Private Collection
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.
- Genova, Palazzo Duccale, Modigliani , 2017 - no. 9 , p. 43
Exhibitions
- Prague, Modigliani, Municipal house, 2010- 2011 ( in catalogue is only visible the caryatid side, no mention at all of this side of the painting, Parisot presents and X-ray absolutely impossible with this painting and the recto side.
- Vitoria, "Modigliani - Imagens de uma vida", Palácio Anchieta,Curator Christian Parisot, 2012
- Rio de Janeiro, "Modigliani - Imagens de uma vida", Museu Nacional de belas Artes, Curator Christian Parisot, 2012
- São Paolo, "Modigliani - Imagens de uma vida" , Museu de arte de Sao Paolo, Curator Christian Parisot, 2012
- Curituba, "Modigliani - Imagens de uma vida", Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Christian Parisot, 2012
- Genova, Palazzo Duccale, Modigliani , 2017 - no. 9
Notes
Parisot in the catalogue for the exhibition in Prague (P. 34) present this X-ray as the image visible under the Caryatid Rossa:
The published X-ray is recorded as incompatible with the recto and verso compositions.
1.- The frontal and back composition would be visible at the same image.
2.- The balcony in the frontal painting and the treatment of the background would make impossible to have a previous composition, the blank areas with no painting that left visible the canvas make it absolutely impossible.
The published X-ray is therefore recorded as not belonging to this painting.
Recto:
verso:
Image of the painting in display at Genova Modigliani exhibit in 2017:
The painting was seized by the police after a report by C. Pepi an Italian connoisseur and finally this is the conclusions of the investigation:
Conclusion of the Prof. Isabella Quattrocchi (- text of the report as published)
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
