Cypresses and houses at Cagnes
Oil on canvas, 1919
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Cypresses and houses at Cagnes / Landscape of the Midi / Landscape, trees and houses.
- Date
- 1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni and Parisot. Pfannstiel dates the canvas 1918.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 61 × 46 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at bottom right, in green. Pfannstiel 1956 incorrectly placed the signature at bottom left.
- Present location
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF259).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 246 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 367 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 291 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | no. 6/1919 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 303 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF259).
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.
- Der Querschnitt, Berlin, July 1926, p. 527.
- Florent Fels, Modigliani, Paris, 1926.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 39.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 246, as Landscape of the Midi, dated 1918.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 101.3
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 367, as Landscape, trees and houses, Cagnes, dated 1919.4
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 291.5
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 303.6
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 6/1919.7
- Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia, The Art of Cézanne, New York, 1939, pp. 140–41, no. 360.
Exhibitions
- This investigation states that the painting has not left the Barnes Foundation since it was acquired.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 214, as Paysage du Midi, 61 × 38 cm, signed bottom right, painted at Cagnes in 1918, provenance Paul Guillaume by 1929. The published height of 38 cm does not match the present 46 cm measurement.
A grey-blue drawn line is used against the yellow-orange walls.
The documentation assembled for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.