Portrait of Paul Alexandre with band
Oil on canvas — 1911-12?
Identification
- Title
- English: Portrait of Paul Alexandre, Alexandre with band, Bust of Paul Alexandre, Paul Alexandre - Dandy.
- Date
- 1911-12?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92 × 60 cm
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani" lower right
- Present location
- Private Collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 25 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 39 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 15 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 1/1911 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 35 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Acquired to the artist by the sitter
- Alexandre descent
- Mme. Jeanne Bréfort
- Property from the collection of Paul Alexandre
- Sale Sotheby's 04-June-2014 - Paris Art Impressionnist et Moderne
- SalePF1406
- Estimate:
- 5.000.000 - 8.000.000 Euros - Sold: 13.537.500 Euros
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.
- Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 5 - no. 71
- Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920, New York, 1954, illustrated pl. 42
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 253
- Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 33/a4
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 235
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 396
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 317
- Rubi, William, MOMA, DIA, Dallas Museum of Art,
- "Primitivism" in 20th century art : affinity of the tribal and the modern : Volume 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 356
- Roy, Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p. 334
- Castieu-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Courbevoie, 1987, p. 54
- Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 , p.59 - no. 118
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 359
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 1/191110
- Rubin , Le primitivisme dans l’art du 20e siècle, Les artistes modernes devant l’art tribal, vol. II, Paris, 1991, illustrated p. 356
- Alexandre, Modigliani inconnu, Témoignages, documents et dessins inédits de l'ancienne collection de Paul Alexandre, Paris, 1993, no. 331, illustrated p. 6911
- Kruszynski, Amedeo Modigliani, Portraits and Nudes, Munich-New York, 1996, illustrated p. 11
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.27, pl.2812
- R, Le silence éternel, Pinacotheque de Paris, 2008, p. 3013
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 200714
Exhibitions
- New York, Museum of Modern Art Modigliani-Soutine, 1950-51, n.n., titled Dr. Paul Alexandre (Dandy), dated 1911
- Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani-Soutine, 1950-51, n.n., titled Dr. Paul Alexandre (Dandy), dated 1911
- Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990 - no. 17, titled Paul Alexandre, dated 1911-1912
- Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen Amedeo Modigliani, Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 7, dated 1911/12
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani, Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 7, dated 1911/12
Notes
This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration)
I mage of the Painting framed at the exhibition for the auction in 2014:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920, New York, 1954.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne / Paris, Skira / Nathan, 1958–85.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- 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.
- Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Noël Alexandre, Modigliani inconnu: témoignages, documents et dessins inédits de l’ancienne collection de Paul Alexandre, Paris, 1993.
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- MR (cited here as MR), Le silence éternel, Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.