Pierre Reverdy

Identification

Title

English: Pierre Reverdy.

Date

1916 - 1915 ?
Notes: 1915 (MR); 1916 (Pfannstiel, Modigliani Project).

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

40.5 x 34 cm
Notes: 40.7 x 33.7 cm (MR); 40.5 x 34 (Modigliani Project).

Signature

Signed "modigliani" lower right in white

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. Reverdy Col. as a gift from the artist (his friend)
2. Galerie Zak, Paris
3. Zak Coll. Paris
4. Thalheimer Coleman Collection
5. Lent to the Baltimore Museum of Art
6. Thalheimer Coleman Coll. Baltimore?

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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 15¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 100 (as Poet Reverdi, 1916)²
• D'Atri as no. 293 dated in 1916
• Parkhurst, Twentieth Century Italian Art. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966
• Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, A la Rencontre de Pierre Reverdy et Ses Amis, 1970, p. 44
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 202-203 - no. 31³
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 44⁴
• Piccioni ,Modigliani, Rizzoli / Skira - Corriere della Sera, Milano 2004 ?
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 115, pl. 30⁵
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁶
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 -no. 19, p. 53⁷
• Cahn, I Misia, Reine de Paris. Paris, editions Gallimard, 2012
• Josyph Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls. Austin, University of Texas Press, March 1, 2013
• Russell, Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani. Delphi Classics, June 2016
• Modigliani project, Newly accepted works, November, 2019 - dated in 1915 and titled Pierre Reverdy

Exhibitions

• Baltimore,20th Century Italian Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 31
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
• Paris, Misia Reine de Paris, Musee d’Orsay, 2012

Notes

As no. 293 in D' Atri papers - Poet Reverdi - 40 x 33 - signed bottom right - 1916 - Provenance in Galerie Zak, Paris

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