Henri Laurens seated at a table

Oil on canvas? — 1915

Identification

Title

English: Henri Laurens seated at a table.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas ?

Dimensions

88.3 x 115.8 cm ( Pfannstiel, Parisot , Ceroni: 81 x 60)

Signature

Signed "modigliani" lower right (in the border of the table) - usually named as unsigned

Present location

Museum Sammlung Rosengart, Luzern, Switzerland

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. Zborowski collection
2. G. Menier Collection, Paris
3. Paul Guillaume Collection, Paris
4. Renou et Poyer Galerie, Paris
5. L. Corbellini Collection, Paris
6. Robert J. Newman Collection, New Orleans
7. Galerie A. Rosengart, Luzern, Switzerland
8. Museum Sammlung Rosengart, Luzern, Switzerland

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. 6 - no. 5¹
• Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1944, pl. 4
• Franchi, Modigliani, Arnaud, Firenze, 1947, pl. 4
• T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951, p. 26
• T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 28
• Venturi, Notes on art history, Rome, 1956, p. 207
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 37²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 39³
• Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Fratelli Fabbri, Milano, 1963
• Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, pl. 6
• Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 34⁴
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 72⁵
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 54⁶
• Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, p. 16, pl. 6
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 100 - no. 66⁷
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 113
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 316
• Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985 - no. 46
• Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 46
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 105⁸
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 73 - no. 25⁹
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 15/1915¹⁰
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94, no. 58¹¹
• Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 31¹²
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹³

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani retrospective, Marcel Bernheim (Galerie Bernheim-Jeune), 1931
• Prague, 1931 ?
• Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951, p. 51
• New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951, p. 51
• Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - no. 7
• Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959
• Milwaukee, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Center, 1959
• Boston. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - no. 6
• Los Angeles. Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum, 1961- no. 6
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - no. 9
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 7
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 7
• New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971 - no. 6
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981- no. 22
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 46
• Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 46
• Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - no. 42
• Düsseldorf , Amedeo Modigliani, Art Gallery of Nordrhein-Westfalen 1991 - no. 17
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 17
• Tokyo, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Tobu Museum of Art, 1992-93 - no. 13
• Kyoto, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Daimaru Museum, 1992-93
• Osaka, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Daimaru Museum of Umeda, 1992-93
• Ibaraki, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, Museum of Modern Art, 1992-93
• Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - no. 17

Notes

In D' Atri papers as no. 266 - Portrait de M. Laurens 81 x 60 cm - sans signature (signed in the table probably a mistake)- dated 1915 - and in "Meunier" Collection, Paris

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)

There is another smaller version of the same painting:

Several sketches represent the same composition

Color changes since the last restoration or cleaning:

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