Manuel Humbert - Manuello by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO Nº 175 Nº 135 YES 7/1916 Nº 136 YES YES
Date 1916 ?
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

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

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
  • New York, Twentieth Century French Painters and Picasso, Bignou Gallery, 1939 - nº 11.
(ERRORS in Catalogue of paintings, Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999, p. 188)

  • London, The Tragic Painters, Alex Reid & Lefevre,  1938, - nº 3
  • London,  The School of Paris, Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1938 - nº 45
  • New York,   Bignou Gallery, 1943
  • Los Angeles, Modern Artists in Transition, Beverly Hills, Modern Institute of Arts, 1948
  • Los Angeles, Roy J. Goldengerg Galleries, 1948 nº 411
  • Palm Beach, Amedeo Modigliani, Society of the Four Arts; Coral Gables, Lowe Gallery, 1954 - nº 18
  • Houston, Works of Modigliani, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1954 - nº 8
  • San Antonio,  Amedeo Modigliani, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute,1957 - nº 5
  • Pasadena, 20th Century Italian Art, Pasadena Art Museum, 1958
  • Atlanta, The Art of Amedeo Modigliani, Atlanta Art Association, 1960 - nº 7
  • Boston, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - nº 10
    Los Angeles, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, County Museum of Art, 1961 - nº 10
  • New York, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Modigliani.
    Tokyo ,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979 - nº 7
    Osaka,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse , Daimaru, 1979
Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - nº 36
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

Other Not in D´Atri papers.

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Only big compostion is mentioned in Pfannstiel catalogues

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This painting presents a very thick and glossy varnish layer

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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration)

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Signature of the painting:

signature

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Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

ears


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There is another painting with the same subject in the Nation Gallery of Victoria
manuel Humbert amedeo modigliani
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The painting framed for auction in 2005:
manuelhumbertforauctionin2005


The painting framed at Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016:
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:

Modigliani unmasked, Jewish Museum, 2018

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