Head of a Clown

Identification

Title

English: Head of a Clown.

Date

1907 ?

Medium

Oil on Canvas? | In the auction catalogue they say: Oil, pencil and traces of candle wax on cloth covered cardboard. | 50 leaves with 50 drawings, one drawing with an inscription of the artist.

Dimensions

23.5 x 15 cm

Signature

? | Stamped with the collectors mark on the inside cover,

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 Research Project 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. Paul Alexandre, acquired from the artist.
2. Sold by Alexandre's inheritance at Sotheby's 20 Jun, 2006, Sale LO6009 - Lot 139 Sold for: GBP 232,000
3. 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.

• Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993, Chapter 2 dedicated to this sketchbook, cat. no. 6.1-6.5
• R, Modigliani et le primitivism, Nat. Museum of art Osaka / National Arts Center Tokio, 2008, no. 1
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹

Exhibitions

• The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993 - 196 ( travelling show /
• Venice, Palazzo Grassi , London, Royal Academy of Arts, Madrid, Cologne, New York, Florence
• )
• Alexandre, The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre, 1993, Chapter 2 dedicated to this sketchbook, cat. no. 6.1-6.5
• Tokio, Modigliani et le primitivism, Nat. Arts Center, 2008
• Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivism, Nat. Museum of art, 2008

Notes

Wildenstein Institute certification signed by MR.

See "two heads or the ventriloquist" back cover of the note book.

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