Choir boy
Oil on canvas, 1917 or 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Choir boy; Boy in a black shirt; Boy.
- Date
- 1918 or 1917.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (unconfirmed).
- Dimensions
- 60.1 × 33 cm (unconfirmed).
- Signature
- Unsigned.
- Present location
- Private collection, New York.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Sidney Osborn, New York.
- Lee A. Ault Collection, New York (by 1954).
- Private collection, New York.
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.
- No book-length catalogue raisonné entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- New York, Valentine Gallery, 1944.
- Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1954, no. 2, as Boy in a black shirt.
- Atlanta Art Association, 1960.
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Los Angeles County Museum, 1961, no. 28.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers?
Published documentation for this work is limited. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where they are recorded in this investigation.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
