Boy with blue eyes

Identification

Published titles

English: Boy with blue eyes; Portrait of a boy with blue eyes; The blue-eyed boy; Face of the red boy.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

46.3 × 38.2 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani. at bottom right.

Present location

San Diego Museum of Art, California, inv. 1986.43.

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. Unpublished early history.
2. Max Pellequer, Paris.
3. Perls Galleries, New York (1986).
4. Maxwell Gluck Collection, San Diego (1986).
5. Gift to the San Diego Museum of Art, inv. 1986.43.

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.

• San Diego Jewish Press Heritage, 1 January 1999, p. 1, pl. 1.
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹

Exhibitions

• San Diego Museum of Art, General Exhibition, 2013–18.
• San Diego Museum of Art, Post-Impressionism, 2018.

Notes

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

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

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records this head as a possible study for the facial expression of The red boy shown at Berthe Weill in 1917 as no. 6. Lanthemann no. 306 applies to that larger portrait, not to the present canvas.

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