Identification

Published titles

English: Red-Haired Young Man Seated; The Student; Young Man; Seated Boy with Red Hair.

Date

Catalogues agree on 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Usually given as 100.5 × 65 cm. Sotheby’s 2002 recorded 99 × 60.9 cm. Patani and Parisot also give 100 × 65 cm; some earlier entries confuse this canvas with the bust-length versions and print 46 × 33 or 47 × 33 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left. The 1929 De Hauke catalogue entry is reported as signed at upper right. Christie’s 2014 and later photographs place the signature at upper left.

Present location

Private collection after the Kimmel sale of 2014.

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. Not documented before Paul Guillaume, Paris.
2. Kraushaar Galleries, New York (1927).
3. Ralph M. Coe Collection, Cleveland (1929).
4. Sotheby’s, London, 23 November 1960, lot 39.
5. Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
6. Cummings Collection, Los Angeles.
7. Private collection, Switzerland.
8. Christie’s, New York, 13 November 1984, lot 136.
9. Robert C. Guccione Collection, New York.
10. Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2002, lot 59, sold $8,479,500.
11. Kimmel Collection, New York.
12. Christie’s, New York, 6 May 2014, lot 5, Jeune homme roux assis, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 65 cm, signed upper left, painted in 1919, estimate $8,000,000–12,000,000, sold $17,637,000 including premium.
13. Private collection.

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.

• Maud Dale, Modigliani, New York, Knopf, 1929, no. 4.
• Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Abrams, 1954, pl. 35.¹
• James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art exhibition catalogue, 1951/1954, p. 47.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 345, 100 × 65 cm.²
• Alfred Werner, Abrams 1966, no. 47.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 406.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, no. 301, 100 × 65 cm.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 312.
• Christian Parisot, catalogue raisonné vol. V, 2012, no. 36/1919.⁵
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, mention p. 352.

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 5.
• Chicago, Arts Club, 1929.
• New York, Demotte, 1931, no. 13.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 74.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, no. 329.
• New York, C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, 1936.
• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, and Miami, Lowe Gallery, 1954, no. 34.
• New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1956, no. 147.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1979, no. 11.
• Tokyo, Nichido Museum, 1980, no. 20.
• Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Guccione Collection, 1994.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 74, as young red-haired man, dated 1919 (with a note “1916?”), Coe collection in 1931.

This investigation groups this seated figure with two bust-length versions of the same sitter (the Guggenheim canvas and a private-collection bust).

MR has suggested a member of the family of Dr Raymond-Jacques Sabouraud, or alternatively one of the sons of Georges Menier. Neither identification is documented.

Infrared photographs in this investigation show underdrawing in the ears, mouth and moustache, and jacket.

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