Identification

Published titles

English: Moïse Kisling; Portrait of Moïse Kisling.

Date

1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

82 × 47 cm. Parisot: 81 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left in black.

Present location

LaM, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, inv. AM 1994-423 / D995.3.4. Deposit of the Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre de création industrielle, Paris. Gift of Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979; assigned 1994.

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. Dutilleul Collection, Paris (1921).
2. Jean Masurel Collection, Paris.
3. Gift of Geneviève and Jean Masurel to Lille, 1979 (inv. 979.4.104).
4. Assigned 1994 to LaM as a deposit of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, inv. AM 1994-423 / D995.3.4.

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.

• Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani: Portraits, Paris, Hazan, 1957, pl. 6.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 182.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 113.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 154.³
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, p. 126, no. 41.
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 89, no. 40.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 3/1916.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 157.⁶
• Modigliani Project, 2002, p. 41, fig. 20.⁷
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁸
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani et l’École de Paris, 2013, pp. 56–57.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 6.
• South America, itinerant exhibition, 1949.
• Tokyo and Osaka, Le Bateau-Lavoir, 1977, no. 29.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, La donation Geneviève et Jean Masurel, 1980, no. 91.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 41.
• Warsaw, Galeria Zachęta, 1986–87.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 45.
• Rome, Palaexpo, 1998.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, L’École de Paris, 2000–01.
• Itinerant exhibition of the Lille Métropole collection in Japan, 2006–07.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2013, no. 16.
• Pisa, BLU Palazzo d’arte e cultura, 2014–15; Turin, GAM, 2015.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, 2016; Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016; Helsinki, Ateneum, 2016–17.

Notes

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

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records other portraits of the same sitter.

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.