Identification

Title

Paul Guillaume.

Date

1916. A related drawing in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, is dated 1916.

Medium

Oil on cardboard. The 1963 Edinburgh/London exhibition: oil on canvas with papier collé. Christie’s has catalogued it as oil on cardboard laid down on panel. Ceroni: oil on canvas. Auction sizes and supports have varied: 56 × 40.5 cm, board laid down on cradled panel (1996); 50.8 × 35.5 cm, oil on canvas (2000); 53.3 × 38.1 cm, oil on cardboard (2006); 53 × 37.5 cm, oil on cardboard laid down on panel (2013).

Dimensions

53 × 37.5 cm, recorded with a query. Ceroni: 55 × 38 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom left, in white; inscribed PAUL GUILLAUME / U at top left-centre.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query.

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
2. Roland Leten, Ghent (by 1947–1958).
3. Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes, Liechtenstein.
4. M. Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A7317), acquired October 1959.
5. Marlborough Fine Art, London (by 1963).
6. Harold and Ruth Uris, New York (acquired January 1964).
7. Christie’s, New York, 13 November 1996, sale 8500, lot 19 (estimate USD 1,800,000–2,500,000; sold USD 3,412,500).
8. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas.
9. Sotheby’s, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 34 (estimate USD 3,500,000–5,000,000; sold USD 4,625,750).
10. Sotheby’s, New York, 7 November 2006, lot 54 (sold USD 4,832,500).
11. Christie’s, London, Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale, 18 June 2013, sale 1131, lot 22 (estimate GBP 5,000,000–7,000,000; sold GBP 6,781,875).
12. 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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 14.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 88.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 58.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 93.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 102.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 106.⁶
• The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, pp. 90–97.
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 88.⁷

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929? (recorded with a query).
• Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, Hommage à Paul Guillaume, 1935.
• Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, 1947, nos. 62–63.
• Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1953, no. 112.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 31 (Roland Leten Collection; 53 × 37.5 cm).
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963, no. 18.
• Las Vegas, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, inaugural exhibition, 1998–99.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–2018.

Notes

D’Atri no. 290 as oil on canvas, 53 × 37.5 cm, Paul Guillaume property.

This investigation publishes infrared and X-radiograph images and records that colour was built from the centre outward.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

A related drawing, formerly in the Brillouin Collection, is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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.