Chéron

Oil on canvas?— 1915? (Perls: 1916–17)

Identification

Title

English: Chéron. French: Chéron.

Date

1915? (Perls: 1916–17)

Medium

Oil on canvas? (probably cardboard, reused; MR: oil on canvas)

Dimensions

45.5 x 32.7 cm? (MR: 46.5 x 33 cm)

Signature

Signed “modigliani” at bottom left in red

Present location

Private collection

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. Giroux Collection, Brussels
3. Galerie Rousso, Paris
4. E. A. Bragaline Collection, New York
5. Perls Galleries, New York (by 1957)
6. Evelyn Sharp, New York (acquired from Perls Galleries, 1959)
7. Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, sale 7048, The Evelyn Sharp Collection of Modern Art, 12 November 1997, lot 28, sold for USD 900,000
8. Private collection

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.

• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, H. N. Abrams, New York, 1966, p. 28, pl. 30
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 180¹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 67²
• The Evelyn Sharp Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978, pp. 60–61
• Patani, Catalogo generale, 1991–94, no. 70³
• Decrooq–MR, L’Ange au visage grave, Paris, 2002, pp. 200–201, no. 30⁴
• Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Carte Segrete / Musée du Montparnasse, 2006, no. 8
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The Timeless Face, Madrid, 2007⁵

Exhibitions

• New York, Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Perls Galleries, 1963, no. 12
• New York, The Evelyn Sharp Collection, Guggenheim Museum, 1978
• Tokyo, Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979, no. 9
• Osaka, Daimaru, 1979, no. 9
• Tokyo, Modigliani, National Museum, 1985, no. 60
• Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985, no. 60
• Paris, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 30
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 25
• Paris, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Musée du Montparnasse, 2006, no. 8
• Pisa, Amedeo Modigliani et ses amis, BLU Palazzo d’arte e cultura, 2014–2015
• Turin, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015
• Seoul, Amedeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Hangaram Museum, 2015

Notes

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

The drawing of the ears remains visible and is painted in colour.

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