Caryatid

Oil on cardboard? — 1911-13 ? (1958 Exhibition say 1910)

Identification

Title

English: Caryatid.

Date

1911-13 ? (1958 Exhibition say 1910)

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni , Patani, Parisot, Wayne, : oil on canvas - MR as oil on canvas marouflé on wood)

Dimensions

87.5 × 67 cm ( | Ceroni 81 × 46 - Pfannstiel 82 × 46, R 81 × 46)

Signature

Unsigned

Present location

Aichi prefectural Museum of Art ( Inv. no. FO199600002000 )

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. Paul Guillaume Coll. Paris
2. Sale: Hotel Drouot Paris - 3/march/1927
3. Poyet Collection
4. Percier Gallery, Paris
5. del Milione Colelction, Milano
6. Antonio Verdirame Collection, Milano
7. Private Collection, Tokyo
8. Sale: Christie's, London, 28.3.1988
9. Bridgestone Museum of art, Japan
10. Aichi prefectural art museum, Japan ( Inv. no. FO199600002000 )

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.

• Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946
• R. Carrieri, Modigliani, 12 Opere, Edizione del Milion, Milano 1947 - no. 1 (dated in 1912 - oil on canvas - 81 × 46 - Col Verdirame, Milano)
• Cahiers d’Art, Paris,
• 1950. p. 166
• P. D’Ancona, Milan 1952, p. 8
• J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1953, pl. 3¹
• Catalogue, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1953
• J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1954 , p. 14¹
• J. Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani,Munich, 1954, pl. 12¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 27²
• F. Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Milano, 1958, pl. 2
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 28³
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967, p. 72⁴
• Werner, Editions Cercle d’Art , Paris,⁴
• 1968, p.80
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 528⁵
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 36⁶
• Werner, Modigliani, Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1985,⁴
• p. 58-59
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 1/1913⁷
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 41⁸
• Schmalenbach, Catalogue Dusseldorf / Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, prestel, 1990, p.63⁹
• Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-kno× gallery, 2002, p.79 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)¹⁰
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.23, pl.14 - p. 31, pl. 31¹¹
• Fraquelli, Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris, in Burlington Magazine, 145, 2003 pp. 254-255.
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹²

Exhibitions

• Milano, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946
• no. 1
• La Chaux-de-Finds, Modern italian painting, Musée de Beaux-Arts, 1947
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1955
• Basel, 1955
• München, Grosse Kunsthausstellung, Haus der Kunst, 1957
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 6
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959
• Tokyo, Seibu Gallery, 1968 - no. 4
• Kyoto, Seibu Gallery, 1968 - no. 4
• Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - no. 10
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, 1991 - no. 10
• Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - no. 8 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)
• Buffalo NY, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Kno× Gallery, 2002-2003 - no. 2 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)
• Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - no. 2 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)
• Los Angeles, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003 - no. 2 (incorrectly as oil on canvas)
• Tokyo,
• Modigliani et le premitivism, the national arts center, 2008 - no. 8 (incorrectly as oil on canvas marouflé on wood)
• Osaka, Modigliani et le premitivism, the national museum of art, 2008 - no.
• 28 (incorrectly as oil on canvas marouflé on wood)

Notes

Museum record (verified): Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (inv. FO199600002000). Oil on canvas, c. 82 × 46 cm, 1911–13. Title: Caryatid.

in Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 under the no. 527 there is an almost identical work

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