Identification

Title

English: Antonia.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

82 x 46 cm

Signature

Signed "modigliani" bottom right and the text "ANTONIA" in top left

Present location

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (Inv. no. RF 1963-70)

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris (Acquired to the Artist
2. )
3. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (Inv. no. RF 1963-70)
4. Acquired to Mme. Walter widow of Guillaume in 1957 - entered the museum in 1963

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 présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 8 no. 2¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956, no. 45²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 , p. 162
• Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, pl. 8
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 59³
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 75⁴
• Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, p. 17, pl 7
• Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1979, pl. 19⁵
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, pp. 31, 164
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 204
• Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985 - no. 47
• Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 136⁶
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 75 - no. 27⁷
• Hoog, Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris
• 1987-1990 - no. 62
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 7/1915⁸
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94⁹
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 59¹⁰
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 228-229¹¹
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. XIV, f. 1¹²
• Alarcó, The mirror & the mask: portraiture in the age of Picasso, Kimbell Art Museum/Thyssen art museum, 2007 - no. 54, pp. 110, 139
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹³
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 27, p. 61¹⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, 1re exposition: Kisling, Matisse, Modigliani, Ortiz de Zarate, Picasso, Sculptures négres, Lyre et Palette, November 19–December 5, 1916
• Paris, Exposition peintres d’aujourd’hui,Galerie Paul Guillaume, December 15–23, 1918
• Vystava francouzskeho unemi XIX a XX stoleti, Prague, 1923 - no. 275
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - no. 27
• Paris, Orangerie des tuileries, 1966 - no. 120
• Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, 1978-79 - no. 93
• Athens, National pinacotheque, 1980 - no. 20
• Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, 1981 - no. 91
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 47
• Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 47
• Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, p. 113 - no. 40
• Düsseldorf , Amedeo Modigliani, Art Gallery of Nordrhein-Westfalen 1991 - no. 21
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 21
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 40
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
• Madrid, The mirror & the mask: portraiture in the age of Picasso,
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2007 - no. 54
• Fort Worth, The mirror & the mask: portraiture in the age of Picasso, Kimbell Art Museum, 2007
• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - no. 43
• Seoul, Amadeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, 2015
• 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

no. 272 in D'Atri papers as Antonia - dated 1915 - Guillaume Collection 1929

Signature of the painting:

(on top of the signature the remains of the text Amedeo can still be seen, it was scratched or repainted)

The text ANTONIA:

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

This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (1 of them covered by restoration)

Image of the painting framed at the Lille exhibit in 2016:

The Musée de l’Orangerie confirms Antonia (c. 1915), oil on canvas, 82 × 46 cm, inv. RF 1963-70, acquired from Mme Jean Walter (widow of Paul Guillaume).

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