Henri Laurens head portrait
Oil on canvas?— 1915
Identification
- Title
- English: Henri Laurens head portrait.
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 x 46,5 cm
- Signature
- Unsigned
- Present location
- Private collection, France?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 71 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 53 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 16/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| 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
- Galerie Percier, Paris
- L. Rosenberg, Paris
- R. Dutilleul, Paris
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.
- Venturi, The italian painting, Geneva, 1952, p. 155
- Venturi, Notes on art history, Rome, 1956, p. 206
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958, no. 401
- Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, pl 423
- Modigliani J. , Modigliani sans légende, Gruend, Paris, 1961, pl. 42
- Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Cercle d'art, Paris,1968, p. 894
- Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 225
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 536
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 717
- Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1977, p. 225
- Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, 112
- Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985 - no. 45
- Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
- Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 448
- Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 1049
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 16/191510
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 200711
- Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 8312
Exhibitions
- Amsterdam, Modigliani, Stedelijk Museum, 1950
- Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - no. 24
- Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958 - no. 5
- Gant, Museum voor schone Kunsten - 1978
- Lille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1974
- Liege, Modigliani exhibition. Musée Saint Georges, 1980 - no. 45
- Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - no. 21
- Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 45
- Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
- London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
Notes
image of the painting framed at the Tate Gallery, 2017exhibition where the real color of the painting can be seen more clearly.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958.
- Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1966.
- Gaston Diehl, Modigliani, Paris, Flammarion, 1969.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958.
- Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.
- Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern / Skira Rizzoli, 2017.