Young Boy in a Green Suit

Identification

Published titles

English: Young Boy in a Green Suit; Portrait of a Boy; Young Boy; Boy in a Green Suit.

Date

This investigation allows 1918–1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

60.9 × 45.7 cm (unconfirmed).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Georges Bénard, Paris (until 1933).
2. Drouot, Paris, Collection G. B. (Georges Bénard / Bernard Frères et Cie), 9 June 1933, lot 66, sold 7,300 francs, as Portrait de jeune garçon.
3. Georges Bernheim, Paris.
4. Possibly Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 January 1943, lot 88.
5. Possibly André Weil, Paris.
6. Sacha Guitry Collection, Paris.
7. Edward G. Robinson Collection.
8. Parke-Bernet, New York, Robinson Collection, 26 October 1960, lot 70 (reported $57,500).
9. 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.

• Sacha Guitry, 18, avenue Élisée-Reclus, Raoul Solar, 1952.¹
• Kenneth Wayne, Modigliani Project website.
• Expertise by MR (cited without a date in this investigation).

Exhibitions

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center inaugural exhibition, 1958–1959, no. 136.
• San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1959.
• New York, Hammer Galleries, 1959, pl. 16.
• Omaha, Joslyn Museum; Hagerstown, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts.
• New York, Perls Galleries, 1963.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation relates this boy to the seated youth in the Centre Pompidou (1919-w-58).

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.