L' Enfant Gras

Oil on canvas — 1915?

Identification

Title

English: L' Enfant Gras / The fat girl / The fat Child - Louise l' enfant Gras.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

45.5 x 37.5 cm (Ceroni, Parisot 46 x 38 - Pfannstiel 48 x 36 )

Signature

Signed "modigliani " bottom left and the text "L' Enfant / gras" in top left and the text "LOUISE" next to the left ear

Present location

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano, Italia ( Inv. no. 7408)

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. Guillaume Coll. Paris
2. (1916?)
3. Devambez Gallery, Paris (1920)
4. Gino Bonomi, Milano ?
5. Barbaroux Gallery, Milano
6. (1938) ?
7. Lamberto Vitali (1938 - 1997) ?
8. Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris October 1940 to July 1941 — Sold for 9.000 FF
9. (this means that the previous provenance must be false, so it is probably a work
10. with a not clear origin during the war
11. LINK
12. )
13. Private Collection?
14. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano, Italia ( Inv. no. 7408)
15. lent by Collezione Vitali in 1997

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. 8 - no. 2¹
• Vitali, Disegni di Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1929
• Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946, pl. 4
• Carrieri, 12 opere di Amedeo Modigliani, Ed. del Milione, Milano 1950, pl. 4
• San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, p. 6²
• Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954 , pl. 4³
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, no. 46⁴
• Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 15
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 48⁵
• Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, p. 72⁶⁷
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzanti, Milano 1967, pp. 86-87⁸
• Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Cercle d'art, Paris,1968, p. 94⁸
• Ponente,
• Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - no. 11
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 59⁹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 74¹⁰
• Valsecchi, Arte Moderna a Milano, Ed. Cariplo, Milano, 1976, p. 176
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, p. 114
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 317
• Modigliani J., Gli anni della scultura, Mondadori, Milan 1984, p. 97⁶
• Patani, Modigliani. Dipinti e disegni. Incontri Italiani 1900-1920, Mazzotta, 1984 - no. 31¹¹
• Mondadori, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Mondadori, Milano, 1988, p. 39
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 32/1915¹²
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 76¹¹
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 208-209¹³
• Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Ed. Carte Secrete, Milano 2006¹⁴
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹⁵

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Devambez, 1920, no. 63
• Milano, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946 - no. 4 (size 46 x 38)
• Roma, 1948 - no. 11
• Bruxelles, Modigliani. Palais des beaux-arts, 1950 - no. 63
• Amsterdam, Modigliani, Stedelijk Museum, 1950
• London, Tate Gallery 1950
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 15
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - no. 30
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958
• no. 7
• Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - no. 10
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 13
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 13
• Prato, Galleria Farsetti, 1972
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - no. 24
• Livorno, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984 - no. 28
• Torino, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984 - no. 31
• Verona, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984-1985 - no. 31
• Verona, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Palazzo Forti, 1988 p. 39
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 32
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 26
• Torino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015

Notes

Not in D' Atri papers

Signature:

Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color

This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration)

Image of the painting framed at the usual exhibition place at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milano, Italy:

Reconstruction of the Guillaume collections at the Orangerie Museum, this painting is included:

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

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, confirms L’Enfant gras, oil on canvas, 45.5 × 37.5 cm, inventory 7408, signed “modigliani” bottom left with the inscriptions “L’Enfant / gras” and “LOUISE”, from the Lamberto Vitali collection (lent 1997).