Identification

Published titles

English: Pinchus Krémègne.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

82 × 55.5 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, in red.

Present location

Kunstmuseum Bern (inv. G81.036). Legacy of Georges F. Keller, 1981.

Catalogue numbers

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

1. Libaude Collection, Paris.
2. Mareuse Collection, Paris.
3. Keller Collection, Bern.
4. Kunstmuseum Bern (inv. G81.036); legacy of Georges F. Keller, 1981.

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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 185.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 142.²
• Jeanne Modigliani, Racconta Modigliani, Graphis, 1984, p. 228.
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 115.
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 90, no. 41.³
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 18/1916.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 144.⁵
• MR, 2002, pp. 256–259.⁶
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁷

Exhibitions

• Bern, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, 1955, no. 13.
• Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, 1955.
• Moutier, 1956, no. 54.
• Barcelona and Madrid, 1983, no. 23 (Parisot).
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 56.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 41.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 54.
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum, Meeting Modigliani, 2007.
• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 73.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013, no. 13.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The working notes for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.