Man with a moustache
Oil on canvas? — 1913?
Identification
- Title
- English: Gaston Levi? - Mon concierge - Man with a moustache.
- Date
- 1913?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 60.9 x 46.3 cm
- Signature
- Unsigned ?
- Present location
- Denver Art Museum; Denver, Colorado, USA (Object ID: 1980.404)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| 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
- Frank Crowninshield , NY (1929, recorded by d'Atri as no. 171 with the title "Mon concierge" since 1936)
- Gallery Jacques Seligman, NY? (recorded at the Smithsonian files as "Mon Concierge" property of Frank Crowninshield)
- Mrs. Roda Semo
- Denver Art Museum
- donation by the above in 1984
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.
- De Hauke & Co. Inc. Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, New York, October- November, 1929. In catalogue as no. 16 property of Frank Crowninshield
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 112, mention in text with the next entry:1 " Three years later,Modigliani does the portrait of his son Gaston (at the Denver art museum and recorded by Maud Dale in 1929) maybe as a proof of gratitude or as payment for certain help.
Exhibitions
- New York, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, De Hauke & Co. Inc., October- November, 1929 - no. 16
Notes
Museum verification (open sources): Museum confirmation: Denver Art Museum, Object ID 1980.404. Portrait of a Man with Moustache, 1913, oil on canvas, 60.9 × 46.3 cm. Gift of Mrs. Rhoda Semo, 1980.
The Denver Museum does not reflects none of this information in their public files and the painting is actually in storage.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.