Bride and Groom

Oil on canvas — 1915 ?

Date1915 ? (actually dated 1915-16)

MediumOil on canvas

Size55.2 x 38 cm (Ceroni, Parisot 55 x 46 - Pfannstiel 55 x 45 )

CollectionPrivate Collection

Signature"MODIGLIANI" bottom right in a white square

Investigation15-46

Identification

Title: English: Bride and Groom / The married / Wife and Husband / The Newlyweds. French: Les Mariés / Les époux.
Date: 1915 ? (actually dated 1915-16)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.2 x 38 cm (Ceroni, Parisot 55 x 46 - Pfannstiel 55 x 45 )
Signature: "MODIGLIANI" bottom right in a white square
Present location: Private Collection

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	no. 67 BIS
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 54
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 55
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	18/1915
Osvaldo Patani	no. 59
Modigliani Project	YES
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

Guillaume Coll. Paris
Frederic Clay Bartlett
Museum of Modern Art
, NY
Gift by Frederic Clay Bartlett in 1942 (Inv. no. 339.42)
José Mestre Collection?

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.

Dale, Modigliani, New York 1929, pl. 26
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 13 - no.4¹
Barr Jr. New York 1948, p. 60
T. Soby, Modigliani, , New York, 1949, pl. 53
Raynal, Modigliani, Skira, Genève 1951, pl. 2
T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951, p.11
Carli, Amedeo Modigliani, De Luca, Roma 1952, p. 8 - pl. 4
Jedlicka, Modigliani, E. Rentsch, Zürich, 1953, pl. 9²
San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, p. 4³
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954 pl. 23-24⁴
T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 25
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, no. 67 bis⁵
Dorival, Les peintres du vingtième siècle, Pierre Tisnl, Paris, 1957, p. 45
Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 10
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 43⁶
Modigliani J. , Modigliani sans légende, Gruend, Paris, 1961- no. 33⁷
Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, pl. 8
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Cercle d'art, Paris,1968, p. 90⁸
Geza, Modigliani, Tchekislovakia, 1969 - no. 10
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 54⁹
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 55¹⁰
Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, p. 18, pl. 8 (size 55.2 x 46.3 cm)
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 128 - no. 87¹¹
Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exib. cat., 1981, pp 114-115 - no. 25
Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1984 - no. 21¹²
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 43¹³
Benezra, “A Study in Irony: Modigliani’s Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz,” Museum Studies 12, no, 2 (Art Institute of Chicago: 1986), p. 190⁴
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions, Paris, 1987, p. 130¹⁴
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 8 - no. 1¹⁵
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 18/1915¹⁶
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94¹⁷
Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 71¹⁸
Wayne, Modigliani & the artists of Montparnasse, New York, 2002, p. 67, fig. 28¹⁹
MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 48²⁰
Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Ed. Carte Secrete, Milano 2006²¹
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007²²

Exhibitions

New York, Recent Acquisitions,
The Museum of Modern Art, 1942
New York, European and American paintings The Museum of Modern Art, 1943-44
Baltimore, Paintings from the collection of the The Museum of Modern Art,
Baltimore museum of art, 1946
Des Moines, 19th and 20th Century European and american paintings, Desmoines Art Center, 1948
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1945-49
New York, 20th century italian art, The Museum of Modern Art, 1949
Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
Roma, Modigliani, IV Quadriennale,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1951-1952
Palm Beach, Modigliani, Society of the Four Arts, 1954
Miami, Modigliani, Lowe Gallery, 1954
New York, 25th Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, 1954
Houston, Modigliani, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1954 - no. 3
New York, 25th anniversary exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, 1955
Rhode Island, Rhode Island preservation society of Newport, 1955
Washington, Washngton- Rochambeau Celebration, 1955
San Antonio, Amedeo Modiglani, Marion Koogler McNay Institute, 1957
Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 10
Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - no. 7
Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - no. 6
Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 10
London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 10
Czechoslovakia, Modigliani,1969 - no. 10
New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971 - no.10
Liege, Modigliani exhibition. Musée Saint Georges, 1980 - no. 27
Düsseldorf , Amedeo Modigliani, Art Gallery of Nordrhein-Westfalen 1991 - no. 19
Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 19

Notes

Not in D'Atri papers

Signature of the painting:

Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

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

Footnotes

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
Gotthard Jedlicka, Modigliani, 1884–1920, Zürich, E. Rentsch, 1953.
Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1953.
Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1953.
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961.
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1966.
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Douglas Hall, Modigliani, Oxford, Phaidon, 1984.
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958.
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992.
Kenneth Wayne, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, New York, Abrams / Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2002.
MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006.
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.