Unfinished Portrait of Paul Alexandre (recto) - Study for male nude (verso)
Oil on canvas — 1913? (recto - Verso unknown date and author?)
Identification
- Title
- English: Unfinished Portrait of Paul Alexandre (recto) - Study for male nude (verso).
- Date
- 1913? (recto - Verso unknown date and author?)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78.6 × 65.8 cm (2017 exhibt: 80 × 65.6)
- Signature
- Unsigned
- Present location
- Alexandre Collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| 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
- Property from the collection of Paul Alexandre
- Sale Sotheby's 23-March-2018 - Paris Art Impressionnist et Moderne
- Sale PF1826 - Lot 216
- Estimate:
- 1.800.000 - 2.500.000 Euros - Unsold
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.
- Seoul, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Modigliani, Legend of Montparnasse, 2015, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
- New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani unmasked, 2017, illustrated in the catalogue p. 20
Exhibitions
- Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, on loan between 2013 and 2017
- Seoul, Amadeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, 2015
- New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani unmasked, 2017, illustrated in the catalogue p. 20
Notes
I Painting in verso:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
