Young gypsy
Oil on canvas? — 1909 ? - Pfannstiel dates in 1915
Identification
- Title
- English: Young gypsy. French: La petite Bohemien / la petite gitan / Le jeune Garçon.
- Date
- 1909 ? - Pfannstiel dates in 1915
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas?
- Dimensions
- 81 x 54 cm (other sources 79 x 51 cm)
- Signature
- Top Right
- Present location
- Private Collection
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 65 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 28 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 28 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | — |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 30 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Research Project | YES |
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
- Earl of Sandwich Collection. Huntingdon, UK
- Earl of Sandwich Collection, Hinchingbrooke, UK
- ( since 1933?)
- Private Collection, London ?
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.
- Bruxelles, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933.no. 12
- T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1958, no. 65 (Dated in 1915)1
- Lanthemann, Catalogue Raisonne, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970,2
- no. 28 ( Dated in 1909, relate the painting to a watercolor dated in 1909 usually said to represent Soutine)
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1970, no. 28 ( Dated in 1909)3
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 30 a Young gypsy boy - dated 19094
- Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 2006, p. 80 - no. 45
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 20076
- Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 397
Exhibitions
- Bruxelles, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - no. 12
- Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - no. 5
- Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
- New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
- London, Modigliani and his models, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006 - no. 4
- London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
Notes
no. 12 in D' Atri files as La petit Bohemien / Le jeune garçon - dated 1915 in the Earl of Sandwich since 1933
signature:
Lanthemann ascribes the next watercolor (previously said to represent Soutine) to this work:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Simonetta Fraquelli et al., Modigliani and His Models, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.
- Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern / Skira Rizzoli, 2017.