Marie (variant)

Identification

Published titles

English: Marie.

Date

1918, unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

66 × 54 cm (size given in the Quattrocchi dossier).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection, USA?

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. Private collection, USA?

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 entry is recorded in this investigation.

Exhibitions

• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 110.
• Prague, Municipal House, Modigliani, curated by Christian Parisot, 2010–11.
• Vitória, Palácio Anchieta, 2012.
• Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, 2012.
• São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2012.
• Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, 2012.
• Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Modigliani, 2017, no. 60.

Notes

Not recorded in the D’Atri papers.

The painting was seized by the police after a report by C. Pepi. Prof. Isabella Quattrocchi, consultant to the Tribunale di Roma for works of art, issued a written conclusion that the work is false. The notes below report that published conclusion and do not add a further opinion.

The Quattrocchi report identifies the canvas as a mirrored figure of La petite Marie, Ceroni no. 253, published in the 1981 Paris exhibition catalogue, p. 142, no. 61, and in Ceroni 1972, no. 253. The report describes mismatched ears, a failed replica of the signature, and an unfinished background. The published conclusion is that the work is grossly false.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.

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