Identification

Title

English: Man head (Mateo Alegría ?).

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas ? (probably cardboard)

Dimensions

52.2 x 41.9 cm

Signature

"modigliani " top right

Present location

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA ( Inv. no. 1956-25)

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. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
2. College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA ( Inv. no. 1956-25)
3. Gift of Joseph and Enid Bissett, 1956.25

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.

• T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 89 (Bisset Coll. New York)¹

Exhibitions

• Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
• New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951

Notes

There is a picture of Mateo Alegría center figure (archives of american art):

Drawing of the same subject at the Pearlman collection:

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

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, holds the work as Head of a Man, inventory 1956.25, oil on canvas, gift of Joseph and Enid Bissett.