Caryatid
Mixed media on cardboard, dated 1916? or 1911? according to the sources
Identification
- Title
- Caryatid / Cariatide.
- Date
- 1916?
1911?
The Tajan sale of 22 October 2011 dated it 1916.
The Grand Palais Souza-Cardoso exhibition of 2016 dated it 1911. - Medium
- Mixed media on cardboard.
- Dimensions
- 80 × 50 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at bottom right.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query. This investigation last places it in the Fischer Family Collection after the Jorge de Brito sale.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | NO |
| 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
- Jorge de Brito Collection.
- Tajan, Paris, Hommage à Jorge de Brito, 22 October 2011, lot 26 (estimate EUR 200,000–300,000; dated 1916 in the catalogue). The saleroom notice recorded that MR had confirmed inclusion in the catalogue raisonné in preparation with the Wildenstein Institute.
- Fischer Family 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
- Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Amedeo de Souza-Cardoso, 2016 (dated 1911).
Notes
The 2011 Tajan catalogue printed a long commentary on Modigliani’s caryatid drawings and on this sheet as a fully coloured, sculptural composition rather than a study for stone carving. That text is an auction-catalogue commentary, not an independent catalogue-raisonné entry.
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.
