Derain as driver - Le Chauffeur
Gouache or oil on paper or cardboard? — 1915?
Identification
- Title
- English: Derain as driver.
- Date
- 1915?
- Medium
- Gouache on paper glued to cardboard
- Dimensions
- 45.7 x 31 cm
- Signature
- "modigliani" lower left - text "DERAIN" in upper right and "Chauffer" in center left
- Present location
- Unknown
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Czechowicz-Mika Coll. Poland
- Private Collection, 1998
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.
Not recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
Not recorded in this investigation.
Notes
Graphologic expertise by Jan Szeib (Poland) and a technical expertise by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Jägers, Cologne.
At a first glance, it looks like oil on cardboard but there is a scientific expertise from the Mikroanalytisches Labor Dr. Jägers, Bornheim“, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Jägers, Dipl.Chem. and Dr. Erhard Jägers, Dipl.Chem, dated 14.2.2014.
They analysed the artwork with the help of a microscope, by infrared spectroscopy and by x-ray fluorescence analysis. The result is, that it is a gouache painted on paper, mounted on cardboard. As pigments they could reveal: zinc white, carmin red, umbra, ferric oxyde black (all materials coincident with the time of the author)
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
