Pedro the typographer amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO Nº 30 Nº 17 YES 5/1909 Nº 23 YES YES
Date 1909
Title Pedro the typographer - Pierre le typographe - Portrait of a man - Pedro the printer
Materials Oil on Canvas
Size 54.9 x 46.3 cm (Ceroni: 55 x 46 - Parisot: 52.3 x 46 - Patani: 52.3 x 46.3 - 1958 exh. and Soumaya museum: 55 x 46.5 )
Signature: Signed "Modigliani " - upper right
Actual Location Museo Soumaya, Mexico
Provenance
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    Leopold Zborowski, Paris
    Galerie Barreiro, Paris
    Edouard Herriot (1942)
    Thürlimann Collection, Zürich (located there in 1958)
    ( Ceroni- Dedhamm USA as owner ?)
    Homburger Collection, Dedham, Mass. (1957)
    ( Lent to John and Mable Ringling Museum of art, Sarasota, Florida)

    Sold Christie's NY / 6 Nov. 2002 - Sale 1147
    Lot 13- Estimate 500-700.000 USD
    Price Realizes 471.500 USD

    Carlos Slim Collection, Mexico
    On loan to Soumaya Museum Mexico city
Bibliography
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    Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958,page 27

    Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, pl. 20 (dated 1908-1909 and located in Zürich, P.C. 1958)
    Modigliani J. , Modigliani senza leggenda, Vallecchi Editore, Firenze, 1958, pl. 20
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1961, p. 30
    Las Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles 1961, p. 30
    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh , 1963, nº 3
    Tate Gallery, London, 1963, nº 3
    Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 159
    Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 17
    Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 1
    Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 30
    Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 17
    Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1979, pl. 1
    Catalogue Musée d ’Art Moderne de Paris, 1981, p. 102
    Hall, Modigliani, Oxford, 1984, nº 2.
    C. Roy, Beaux livres, Ed. Nathan, 1985, p. 20
    Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR Paris, 1987
    Diehl, Modigliani, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989, p. 17
    Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 5/1909
    Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 23
    Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007
    Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, pp. 38

    In process
Exhibitions
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    Paris, Gallerie Charpentier, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, 1958 - nº 4
    Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958 - nº 2
    Maine, Orobo, University of Maine, the Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Coll., 1962 nº 16
    Northhampton, Smith College museum of art, the Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Coll., 1964 - nº 14
    Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani paintings and drawings, 1969, p. 30 - nº 1
    Las Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani paintings and drawings, 1961, p. 30 - nº 1
    Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Modigliani, 1963 - nº 3
    London, Tate Gallery, Modigliani, 1963 - nº 3
    Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg art museum, 1971 - nº 26
    New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, 1971 - nº 1
    Augusta, Maine State Museum, Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Art Collection - nº 26
    Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art; A Collector's World: Art of Four Continents, 1978- 1979 - nº 6
    Melbourne, Florida, Brevard Museum of Art & Science, A Collector's World: Art of Four Continents, 1978- 1979 - nº 6
    Daytona Beach, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, a Collector's World: Art of Four Continents, 1978- 1979 - nº 6
    Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981 - nº 4
    Maine, Portland Museum of Art, November 1991-June 2002
    London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
    Mexico city, Museo Soumaya

    In process
Other

Not in D' Atri files?

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Signature:

signature


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

ears

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Dr. Phyllis Hattis Rubin informs that underneath Pedro there is an early version of the Amazon painting visible in X-ray

Framed at Soumaya museum:
pedro the typographer framed at soumaya museum


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Pedro in location at Soumaya museum Mexico city:

Pedro in location at Soumaya museum Mexico city

The painting previously to cleaning:

Pedro the typographer amedeo modigliani

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