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Date | 1916 ? | ||||||||||||||||
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Title | Manuel Humbert - Bust of Manuel Humbert - Manuello -Portrait of a man - | ||||||||||||||||
Materials | Oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||
Size | 66 x 51.4 cm ( others: 65 x 50 ) | ||||||||||||||||
Signature: | Signed "modigliani" bottom right in white and te text "MANUELLO" in top right | ||||||||||||||||
Actual Location | Private Collection | ||||||||||||||||
Provenance | -?- Libaude Collection, Paris (in 1938) George Keller Bignou Gallery New York (in 1943) Zeppo Marx Collection, Los Angeles James McHugh Collection, Los Angeles William Wyler Collection, Los Angeles Donated to Los Angeles county museum to benefit acquisition fund by William Wyler Sold by the museum in 2005 Auction: Sotheby's, Impressionist & modern art part one - New York , 2 / 11/ 2005, Lot 15 Estimate: 4.000.000 - 6.000.000 / sold for: 5.504.000 USD Bruce and Robbi Toll Collection In process |
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Bibliography | -?- Life Magazine, New York, 1948 Annual report for the Department of History, Science and Art for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1952. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1952, pp. 200 Los Angeles County Museum Bulletin of Art Division, Los Angeles, Winter 1954, p. 14 Fels, L' art vivant, Pierre Caillier editotor, Geneva, 1956, p. 107 Atlanta Art Association, The art of Amedeo Modigliani, Atlanta Art Association Galleries, Atlanta, 1960, p. 18 Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 179 Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 44 Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 175 Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 135 Lassaigne, Tout Modigliani, la peinture, Paris, 1982, p. 40 Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 7/1916 Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 136 Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 26, f. 2 - dated c. 1916 Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, The jewish Museum, New York, 2017 In process |
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Exhibitions | -?- Decrooq / Restellini locate this painting by mistake in: Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, 1930 - nº 36, the image show is the bigger painting Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 37,the image show is the bigger painting
Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - nº 65 Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 New York,Art and Jewish Life in Italy, The Jewish Museum 1989 Ferrara, Art and Jewish Life in Italy, Palazzo dei Diamanti, 1990 Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - nº 21 Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, mention in p. 252 (mixing the text Manuello on actual painting with the other larger composition) Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005 Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005 Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016 Budapest, Modigliani, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016 Helsinki, Modigliani, Ateneum Art Museum, 2016-2017 New York, Modigliani unmasked, Jewish Museum, 2018 In process |
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Other | Not in D´Atri papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only big compostion is mentioned in Pfannstiel catalogues -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting presents a very thick and glossy varnish layer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature of the painting: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is another painting with the same subject in the Nation Gallery of Victoria -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The painting framed for auction in 2005: The painting framed at Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016: The painting framed at the Modigliani unmasked, Jewish Museum, 2018 exhibit: |
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