Celso Lagar
Oil on cardboard? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Celso Lagar.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard ( Museum, Pfannstiel, Lanthemann, Ceroni, Parisot say oil on canvas)
- Dimensions
- 35 x 27 cm (size)
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani " low right
- Present location
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem | , Israel (Inv. no. L-B99.437)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 57 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 101 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 96 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 35/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 99 |
| 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
- Guillaume Collection, Paris
- Galerie Bing, Paris (1925)
- Private Collection, Paris (1958)
- Lefevre Gallery, London (1963)
- Private Collection ?
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (Inv. no. L-B99.437)
- Anonymous gift to the State of Israel; on permanent loan to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, from the Administrator General of the State of Israel
- (the museum say oil on canvas, but is oil on textured cardboard)
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.
- Galerie Bing & Cie, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris 1925
- Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 91
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 57 (provance in Guillaume)2
- The Lefevre Gallery,Exhibition Catalogue, London 1963,
- p. 10
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - no. 172
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970- no. 1063
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 96 (Private Collection, Paris)4
- Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 118 - no. 815
- Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1984 - no. 206
- Parisot, Modigliani, caja de pensiones, ed. Poligrafía, Barcelona, 1983 p. 21
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 35/19157
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 998
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 319
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 200710
- Kamien-Kazhdan, Modernism in Dialogue: 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum, The Israel Museum, Adina (ed.) Jerusalem, 2010
Exhibitions
- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 - no. 22 as "Le peintre Lagar"
- Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 3
- Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 -no. 3
- Prague, Modigliani, Municipal house,Curated by Christian Parisot, 2010- 2011, p. 55
- 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 papers ?
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)
Celso Lagar
Biography
()
There are a few drawings attrib. to Modigliani of Lagar
Celso Lagar Circa 1950
The work at the Paris Gallery BIng Exhibition in 1925:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, holds Portrait of the Painter Celso Lagar, oil on cardboard, 35 × 27 cm, inventory L-B99.437, anonymous gift to the State of Israel on permanent loan.
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.
- 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.
- 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.