The Couple
Oil on cardboard? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: The Couple.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 45.7 x 38.1 cm
Notes: 47.5 x 37.5 (Parisot ); 45 x 37 (MR). - Signature
- "modigliani" bottom right in red
Notes: Parisot say unsigned but the red signature is clearly visible? - Present location
- Private Collection, New York ?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 52 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 2/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| 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
- Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris? (the work presents a label "Galerie Paul Guillaume, 108 Faubourg Saint Honoré Paris, no. 668")
- Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris ? (the work presents a label "Galerie Paul Pétridès Paris ")
- Perls Galleries New York
- (no. 13373 Modigliani, le couple)
- Private Coll. NY
- Sale: Drouot Richelieu - 28-June-2010 - Art moderne et Contemporain - Art nouveau - Art Déco
- Millon & Associés Lot 58 (in the acution size is 45 x 37 ) Estimed : 400 000 / 500 000 € Final : bought in
"A notice of inclusion, dated February 12, 2001, for the catalog raisonné of the paintings and drawings by Amedeo Modigliani by the Wildenstein Institute and R will be given to the purchaser"
- Private Coll.
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.
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 521
- Modigliani J., Gli anni della scultura, Mondadori, Milan 19842
- Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985
- Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 2/19153
- "A notice of inclusion, dated February 12, 2001, for the catalog raisonné of the paintings and drawings by Amedeo Modigliani by the Wildenstein Institute and R will be given to the purchaser"
Exhibitions
- Livorno, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984 - no. 27
- Roma, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna., 1984
- Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 44
- Aichi, Yamato Fine Arts, 1985
- Tokyo, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Art Center, 2008 - no. 21
- Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Museum of Art, 2008 - no. 21
Notes
Some expert recalls this could be a sketch for the couple?
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.