Pierrot - Self portrait as Pierrot

Oil on cardboard — 1915

Date1915

MediumOil on cardboard (Pfannstiel: cardboard - Ceroni, Parisot: paper )

Size43 x 27 cm

CollectionStatens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (no. inv. KMSr88)

SignatureSigned "modigliani" low left and the text "PIERROT" Dated and signed in the back MODIGLIANI 1915

Investigation15-5

Identification

Title: English: Pierrot - Self portrait as Pierrot.
Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on cardboard (Pfannstiel: cardboard - Ceroni, Parisot: paper )
Dimensions: 43 x 27 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" low left and the text "PIERROT" Dated and signed in the back MODIGLIANI 1915
Present location: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (no. inv. KMSr88)

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	no. 61
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 46
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 52
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	9/1915
Osvaldo Patani	no. 56
Modigliani Project	YES
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

G. Aubry Collection. Paris
Sale Aubry Coll. Drouot, Paris - November 24-25/ 11 / 1924- Lot 114
Johannes C. Magnus Rump (1924-1928)
Donation by Johannes Rump in 1928
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark - no. inv. KMSr88

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, Paris, 1929, p. 9 (as Portrait de l'Artiste (en costume de Pierrot)¹
Staten Museum for Kunst, Katalog over J. Rumps Samling af Modern Fransk Kunst, Copenhagen, 1948, p. 99
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956, no. 61²
Ragghianti, Ivrea, 1958, p. 42
Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne 1958, p. 34³
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, 1965, p. 160
Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flammarion 1969, p. 33⁴
Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flammarion 1977, p. 21⁴
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 46⁵
Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1972, no. 52⁶
Nakayahama, 1974, p. 7
Lanthemann-Parisot. MODIGLIANI INCONNU: suivi de précisions et documents inédits. Brescia, Shakespeare and Company, 1978, p. 18⁵
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980 - no. 82⁷
Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1984, no. 15⁸
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions Paris 1987, p. 135⁹
Diehl, Modigliani, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989, p. 35⁴
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990 p. 79 - no. 31¹⁰
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 9/1915¹¹
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 56¹²
Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen Cologne, 2000, p. 41¹³
MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 218-219¹⁴
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 121, pl. 36¹⁵
Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹⁶
Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 24, p. 58¹⁷
Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 81¹⁸

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 16
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 16
Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 37
Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 29
New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
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
London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

Notes

Not in D'Atri papers?

Signature of the painting:

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

Painting Framed at the LAM exhibit in 2016:

Usual exhibition space in Staten Museum for Kunst

This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 covered by restoration)

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, confirms Self-Portrait as Pierrot (inv. KMSr88), oil on millboard, 43 × 27 cm, 1915, donation of Johannes Rump, 1928. Inscriptions: “PIERROT Modigliani”; verso “MODIGLIANI 1915”.

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

usual space of exhibition next to Alice at the SMK in denmark

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.
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958.
Gaston Diehl, Modigliani, Paris, Flammarion, 1969.
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.
Douglas Hall, Modigliani, Oxford, Phaidon, 1984.
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Doris Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Cologne, Taschen, 2000.
MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2004.
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.
Maurizio Marini, Modigliani, Paris, Skira, 2008.
Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern / Skira Rizzoli, 2017.