Man portrait (head of a man)

Identification

Title

English: Man portrait (head of a man).

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil, crayon and gouache on paper over cardboard

Dimensions

41.2 x 26 cm (Parisot 42 x 27- 41.5 x 26.5)

Signature

"modigliani" low left

Present location

Musée Calvet / Musée des Beaux-Arts & D' Archéologie d' Avignon, France ( no. Inv. 22291)

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. Joseph Rignault, 1947
2. Musée Calvet / Musée des Beaux-Arts & D' Archéologie d' Avignon, France ( no. Inv. 22291)
3. Acquired in 1947

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.

• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970, no. 669¹
• Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980 pl. 5²
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 197 no. 160
• Parisot, Modigliani, caja de pensiones, ed. Poligrafía, Barcelona, 1983, no. 17 p.88
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 no. 57 p. 180
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 p. 70 - no. 22³
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 84⁴
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 68⁵
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005 p. 179⁶
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁷

Exhibitions

• Liege, Modigliani exhibition. Musée Saint Georges, 1980 - no. 38
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - no. 160
• Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 17
• Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 17
• Livorno, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984 no. 31
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 57
• Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 57
• Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - no. 143
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 143
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
• Seoul, Amadeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, 2015

Notes

there is an almost identical composition at Private collection.

And also a third option named as Kiki at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

The Musée Calvet / Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie d’Avignon confirms Tête d’homme (inv. 22291), crayon, gouache and oil on paper laid on cardboard, 41.2 × 26 cm, donation of Joseph Rignault, 1946/47.

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