André Rouveyre

Oil on canvas? — 1915 ? (probably 1916)

Identification

Title

English: André Rouveyre.

Date

1915 ? (probably 1916)

Medium

Oil on canvas ?

Dimensions

65 x 42.5 cm

Signature

Signed "modigliani " top left and the letters "Andre" or "Pedro"?

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. Guillaume Collection, Paris
2. Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York
3. M. Martins Collection, London (1963)
4. Sale Parke -Bernet Gall. NY
5. 9th December 1965, lot 110
6. Eugene V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York
7. Herbert Singer Collection, New York (acquired from the above in December 1967)
8. Nell Singer Collection, New York
9. Sale: Sotheby's London, 5 / February / 2007 - Modern art, evening sale- Lot
10. 34
11. Estimate 1.400.000 - 1.800.000 GBP
12. Private Collection?
13. Sale Christie's New York, Sale 2554 - Impressionist and moder art evening sale - 1st May 2012 - Lot 29
14. Estimate 2.500.000 - 3.500.000 USD - Sale:
15. 2.770.500 USD
16. 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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929 p. 8¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 50²
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 90³
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 93⁴

Exhibitions

No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.

Notes

no. 194 in D'Atri papers as Rouveyre- dated 1915 - Paul Guillaume Collection 1929

Signature and unknown text of the painting:

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

The painting framed for auction in 2012

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