La Rouquine (Le Dingo)
Oil on canvas, dated 1916 or 1918 according to the compilers
Identification
- Title
- La Rouquine / Le Dingo / Woman with red hair. Patani titles the work Laross (Le Dingo).
- Date
- 1916?
Pfannstiel dates it 1918.
D’Atri no. 67 dates it 1919. - Medium
- Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.
- Dimensions
- 92 × 54 cm, recorded with a query. Ceroni: 82 × 34 cm. Pfannstiel: 92 × 54 cm. D’Atri: 91.5 × 54.5 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 278 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 415 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 115 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 16/1916 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 119 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Patani: Zamaron Collection, Paris; Galerie Bing, Paris; Galerie E. Bignou, Paris; then unknown location.
- M. Khoury, Paris, in 1933.
- 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.
- Waldemar George, “Modigliani,” L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1925, p. 386.
- André Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1926, pl. 9.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 45, no. 3.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 278.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 193.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 415.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 115.4
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 16/1916.5
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 119.6
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Bing et Cie, Modigliani, 1925.
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 67.
- Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 58.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 67 as La Dingo, 91.5 × 54.5 cm, oil on canvas, dated 1919, Khoury Collection.
This investigation records that no colour reproduction was available to its compiler and publishes a 1925 Bing installation photograph in which the painting appears at centre.
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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.