Secret Modigliani

Teresa

Oil on paper? — 1915?

Date1915?
MediumOil and gouache on paper
Size43 x 25.5 cm
CollectionMusée d'art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
SignatureSigned "modigliani" lower right, text "Teresa" upper right
Investigation15-13

Identification

Title
English: Teresa.
Date
1915?
Medium
Oil and gouache on paper
Dimensions
43 x 25.5 cm
Signature
Signed "modigliani" bottom right, text "Teresa" top right
Present location
Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France ( Inv. no. 979.4.139)

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur PfannstielNO
Joseph Lanthemannno. 672
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne ModiglianiNO
Christian Parisot?
Osvaldo PataniYES
Modigliani Project?
MRYES
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

  1. Von der Clip Coll. ?
  2. R. Dutilleul Coll. Paris
  3. Sale Drouot Paris, September 1941
  4. Masurel Coll. (until 1979)
  5. Donated by Jean and Genevieve Masurel in 1979
  6. Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France ( Inv. no. 979.4.139)

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

This work is another one that is repeated with variations 4 times

LaM – Lille Métropole musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut confirms Teresa (inv. 979.4.139), gouache on paper, 43 × 25.5 cm, 1915, donation of Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979.

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.

Teresa by Amedeo Modigliani
Teresa

dutilleul house with part of his Modigliani's in display
Dutilleul house with part of his Modigliani's in display

Footnotes

  1. Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
  2. Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
  3. MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
  4. Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.