The poet (Baixeras sale)
Oil on canvas, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: The poet (Baixeras sale); The poet.
French: Le poète. - Date
- 1918 in this investigation, with a note that the style may be closer to 1917.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (unconfirmed).
- Dimensions
- 54 × 33 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at bottom right, according to the 1937 sale notice.
- Present location
- Whereabouts unknown since the Baixeras sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1937, lot 14.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | ? |
| 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
- Baixeras Collection, Paris.
- Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1937, lot 14.
- Unknown location.
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.
- Hôtel Drouot, Baixeras sale, 3 June 1937, lot 14.
Exhibitions
- No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers?
This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person, and in several cases not in a reliable colour reproduction.
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.
