Identification

Title

Max Jacob. Lanthemann: Max Jacob, bald head.

Date

1916?
Lanthemann dates it 1915.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.

Dimensions

8F (46 × 38 cm?), recorded with a query.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom/centre right; inscribed MAX at top left and JACOB at top right.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query.

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. Unpublished.

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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, p. 112, no. 68, dated 1915.¹

Exhibitions

• No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.

Notes

Lanthemann describes the work as a “magnificent portrait full of deep psychology, full of friendship, a great pictorial example.”

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

The original this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.