Conrad Moricand
Oil on cardboard, dated 1916?
Identification
- Title
- Man’s portrait / Conrad Moricand.
- Date
- 1916?
Auction catalogues date it circa 1916. - Medium
- Oil on cardboard.
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 39.3 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at lower right. The work has been described as unfinished; this investigation notes that it is signed.
- Present location
- Private collection.
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
- Thomas May, London.
- Marlborough Fine Art, London.
- Private collection, London (January 1968).
- Christie’s, London, 27 June 1988, lot 33 (sold GBP 135,000).
- Christie’s, London, 20th Century Art, 30 June 1999, sale 6146, lot 517 (estimate GBP 250,000–350,000; sold GBP 463,500). The saleroom notice recorded MR’s confirmation of inclusion in the catalogue raisonné in preparation with the Wildenstein Institute.
- Private collection?
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.
- No book-length catalogue entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.
Notes
Related drawings inscribed with the name Moricand exist, including a sheet in the Centre Pompidou, Paris, with similar features.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
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.
