Caryatid

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1913

Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Title: Caryatid
Origin: Italy
Date: Artist's working dates 1904–1920
Medium: Watercolor, over graphite on buff wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Modigliani"
Dimensions: 537 × 410 mm (primary support); 557 × 430 mm (secondary support); 561 × 432 mm (trimmed)
Credit Line: Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1942.462
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/45254/manifest.json

Douglas Hall, Modigliani (Oxford, 1984), p. 30, fig. 16.
Neal Benezra, “A Study in Irony: Modigliani’s Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz,” Museum Studies 12:2 (1986), pp. 195 and 196, fig. 12.
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, sculture e disegni 1909–1914 2 (Milan, 1992), p. 167 (ill.), cat. 179, as Cariatide in ginocchio verso destra.

Chicago, Arts Club, “Loan Exhibition of Modern Drawings and Sculpture Privately Owned by Chicagoans,” January 3–17, 1930, cat. 79, as Caryatid. [?]
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Robert R. McCormick (Amy Irwin McCormick, 1880–1939),” April 17–June 2, 1940, no cat.
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, “Amedeo Modigliani: 1884–1920,” March 26–June 28, 1981, p. 183 (ill.), cat. 127.
Tokyo, Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, “Amedeo Modigliani,” July 19-September 23, 1985; traveled to Nagoya, Japan, Nagoya City Museum, October 1-November 1985.
New York, Jewish Museum, “Modigliani: Beyond the Myth,” May 21–September 19, 2004, pp. 105 and 209, pl. 20; traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario, October 23, 2004–January 23, 2005; and Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, February 19–May 29, 2005.

Private Collection, Paris [according to Patani 1992]. Amy McCormick (1880-1939), Chicago, by 1930 [Chicago 1930]; by descent to her husband, Col. Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1942.

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.