Identification

Published titles

English: Monsieur Deleu; Portrait of Monsieur Deleu; Portrait of the writer Deleu; Portrait of Kisling.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

81.1 × 46.7 cm.

Signature

Pfannstiel, Parisot and Ceroni record a signature at top right. This investigation states that the signature is not visible in published images and may have been erased; a digital infrared view is reproduced.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., inv. 1963.10.76. Chester Dale Bequest, 1963.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Marcel Bernheim et Cie, Paris.
3. Étienne Bignou, Paris.
4. Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired 1928).
5. National Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 1963.10.76. Chester Dale Bequest, 1963.

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. 25, no. 4.¹
• Maud Dale, 1929, no. 98.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 78.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 61.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 138.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 152.⁶
• John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, rev. ed., New York, 1984, no. 905.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 30/1916.⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94.⁸
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁹

Exhibitions

• New York, Demotte, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, 1931, no. 4.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943–51 (as Portrait of Kisling).
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, loan to the permanent collection, 1954.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, The Chester Dale Bequest, 1965.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1983–84 (Washington only).

Notes

D’Atri papers: not located, recorded with a query.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Two of the holes are recorded as covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation reproduces a normal-light view and a digital infrared view of the upper right corner, where the signature recorded by Pfannstiel, Parisot and Ceroni is not visible.

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