About This Artwork

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Lyre et Palette, 1re exposition: Kisling, Matisse, Modigliani, Ortiz de Zarate, Picasso, Sculptures négres, November 19–December 5, 1916, no. 13.

Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, Exposition peintres d’aujourd’hui, December 15–23, 1918, no. 26.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, p. 31 (ill.).

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of Twentieth-Century European Paintings, October 8–November 6, 1949.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, April 11–June 10, 1951; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, January 30–March 18, 1951, p. 51.

Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting, March 18–April 6, 1952, no. 28; traveled to Athens, University of Georgia, April 14–May 19, 1952.

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, January 8–31, 1954, no. 10; traveled to Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, February 11–28, 1954, no. 11.

Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Modigliani, April 15–May 23, 1954, no. 5.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Amedeo Modigliani, April 18–May 20, 1959, no. 9; traveled to Chicago, Arts Club, January 30–February 28, 1959, and Milwaukee Art Center, March 5–April 1, 1959, no. 9.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Modigliani, August 17–September 16, 1963; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, September 28–November 3, 1963, p. 15, no. 9, pl. 4.

Tokyo, Daimaru Museum, Modigliani: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, September 13–October 16, 1979; traveled to Osaka, Daimaru Museum Shinsaibashi, October 25–November 6, 1979, n.p., no. 6 (ill.).

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, March 26–June 28, 1981, p. 115 (ill), no. 26.

Leningrad, Hermitage Museum, Delacroix to Matisse, March 15–May 10, 1988; traveled to Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10–July 30, 1988, pp. 48–49 (ill.), no. 49.

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, January 19–April 1, 1991; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, April 19–July 21, 1991, pp. 78 (ill.), 220, no. 20, pl. 30.

Paris, Musèe du Luxembourg, Amedeo Modigliani, October 25, 2002–March 2, 2003.

New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani, May 21–September 19, 2004; traveled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, October 23, 2004–January 21, 2005; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, February 19–May 29, 2005.

Publication History

Paul Guillaume, Les arts à Paris, December 15, 1918, n.p., no. 3.

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani: L'art et la vie (Paris, 1929), p. 7.

Frederick A. Sweet, “Modigliani and Chirico,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 33, no. 6 (1939), pp. 90–91 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago. The Winterbotham Collection (Chicago, 1947), illus. P 31.

Pierre Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani: 1884–1920 (Paris, 1951), p. 14 (ill.).

Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani (Paris, 1953), p. 6 (ill.).

Gotthard Jedlicka, Modigliani: 1884–1920 (Zurich, 1953), p. 82, pl. 10, incorrectly identified as Barnes Foundation Collection.

Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920 (New York, 1954), p. 45 (ill.).

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre (Paris, 1956), pp. 68, 73, no. 43, pl. 11.

Art and Activities 42, no. 2 (October 1957), p. 26 (ill.).

Ambroglio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre (Milan, 1958), p. 47, no. 42 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 315, 431 (ill.).

André Salmon, Modigliani: A Memoir, trans. by Dorothy and Randolph Weaver (New York, 1961), ill. opp. p. 129.

A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84, no. 55 (September 1966), p. 225.Gaston Diehl, Modigliani (New York, 1969), p. 36 (ill.)

.R. V. Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse (Milan, 1969), pl. IX.Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Classici dell’arte 40 (Milan, 1970), no. 57, pl. VIII.J. Lanthemann, Modigliani, 1884–1920: Catalogue raisonné (Barcelona, 1970), pp. 112, 178 (ill.), fig. 74.

William Fifield, Modigliani (New York, 1976), p. 184.Carol Mann, Modigliani (London, 1980), pp. 109–110 (ill.), 212, no. 75, fig. 75.

Bernhard Zurcher, Modigliani (Paris, 1980), no. 10.

Musée Saint-Georges, Modigliani (Liege, Belgium, 1980), fig. 26.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 57, pl. 2G12.

Helio Carneiro, “Modigliani: Paris redescobre o gênio maldito,” La Manchete (summer 1981), pp. 82–85 (ill.), 87.

Véronique Prat, “Amedeo Modigliani: Justice pour un prince ivrogne,” Le Figaro (March 21, 1981), pp. 104, 106 (ill.).

Douglas Hall, Modigliani (Oxford, 1984), fig. 23.

Michel Hoog, Hélène Guicharnaud, and Colette Giraudon, Musée de l’Orangerie: Catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume (Paris, 1984), p. 144 (ill.).

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Shimbun, and Chunichi Shimbun, Modigliani (Tokyo, 1985).

Claude Roy, Modigliani, trans. by James Emmons and Stuart Gilbert (New York, 1985), pp. 42 (ill.), 155.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Chicago, 1986), pp. 30 (ill.), 58, 63.

Thérèse Castieau-Barreille, La vie et l’oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani (Paris, 1987), p. 131 (ill.).

Christian Parisot, Modigliani (Livorno, 1988), ill. opp. p. 130.Christian Parisot, Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2 (Livorno, 1991), pp. 79 (ill.), 281.

Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, vol. 1 (Milan, 1991), p. 89 (ill.).

Schmalenburg, Werner. Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen (Munich, 1991), p. 20.

Bennett Shiff, “A Line as Clear and Tensile as a Lightning Flash,” Smithsonian 24, no. 10 (January 1994), pp. 64–73, 65 (ill.).

Anette Kruszynski, Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes (Munich/New York, 1996), pp. 54, 59, 119 (ill.).

Kenneth Wayne, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, exh. cat. (New York, 2002), pp. 65, 67 (ill.), 69, 202–203.

Ownership History

Paul Guillaume (died 1934), Paris, acquired directly from the artist probably by 1916–c. 1929 [Wayne 2002 and Pfannsteil 1929]. Madame Lederlin, Paris, by 1933 [Collection de Madame Lederlin, Galerie Jean Charpentier, March 22–23, 1933, lot. 134]. Valentine-Dudensing Gallery, New York, by December 29, 1937 [letter from Daniel Catton Rich to Joseph Winterbotham, December 29, 1937, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1938.