Chaïm Soutine

Oil on cardboard? — 1915–1917?

Identification

Title

English: Chaïm Soutine. French: Chaïm Soutine.

Date

1915–1917?

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni, Parisot: oil on canvas; Modigliani Project and the museum: wood; MR and Parisot later: wood)

Dimensions

36 x 27.5 cm (Ceroni, Parisot: 38 x 28 cm)

Signature

Signed “modigliani” at top right with the inscription “SOUTINE” at top left

Present location

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (inv. no. 2559)

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. Unrecorded
2. Private collection, Oslo
3. Unrecorded
4. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (inv. no. 2559), acquired 1959

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.

• Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, 1963, pl. 6
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: dessins et sculptures, Edizioni del Milione, Milan, 1965, p. 170
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 183 (dated 1917)¹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 97²
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 123, no. 85
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 97, no. 47³
• Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, 1991, no. 36/1915⁴
• Patani, Catalogo generale, 1991–94, no. 100⁵
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, New York, 2002, p. 82⁶
• Decrooq–MR, L’Ange au visage grave, Paris, 2002, p. 43⁷
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The Timeless Face, Madrid, 2007⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 41 (dated 1917)
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991, no. 26
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 26
• Buffalo, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox, 2002–2003, no. 5
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003, no. 5
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003, no. 5
• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 47
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, L’œil intérieur, LaM, 2016
• Budapest, Modigliani, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016
• Helsinki, Modigliani, Ateneum Art Museum, 2016–2017

Notes

Not recorded in the d’Atri papers in this investigation.

Lanthemann dates the work to 1917; Parisot places it in 1915 (no. 36/1915). The museum and Modigliani Project record the support as wood; earlier catalogues give cardboard or canvas.

MR has stated in published reports that Modigliani did not use cardboard after 1915. The same author has nevertheless published this work, which is recorded on cardboard and has also been dated 1917.

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