Portrait de Max Jacob, 1916
Amedeo Modigliani
Information
Artist
Amedeo Modigliani
1884
Livorno, Italien
1920
Paris, Frankreich
Work data
Material/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Image: 76,7 × 63,8 × 2 cm
Frame: 95,5 × 83,4 × 8,5 cm
Signature
Bez. u.r.: "modigliani an 1916", o.l.: "MAX J", o.r.: "MAX JACOB"
Accession Number
1036
Catalogue Raisonné
Parisot 2, 5/1916
Acquisition year
1965
Provenance
Little is known about the whereabouts of the painting “Portrait de Max Jacob” by Amedeo Modigliani after its creation in 1916. By the end of 1925 at the latest it was part of Paul Poiret’s collection, which was offered for sale at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris. The work was purchased by André Lefèvre at the auction and remained in his collection until it, too, was sold at auction at the end of 1965. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Portrait de Max Jacob” at the auction of the Lefèvre Collection at the Palais Galliera in 1965, but it did not arrive in Düsseldorf until 1972 due to a lengthy export dispute.
Credit line
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1965 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks
Exhibitions
- Amedeo Modigliani, 18.4.-6.7.1991, Kunsthaus Zürich
- Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, 17.10.2002-27.9.2003, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
- Modigliani. Beyond the Myth, 10.4.-18.9.2004, The Jewish Museum, New York
- The Mirror & the Mask. Portraiture in the Age of Picasso, 5.2.-15.9.2007, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid/Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
- Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920, 11.8.-4.10.2008, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka
- Amedeo Modigliani. Ein Mythos der Moderne, 16.4.-29.8.2009, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
- Modigliani, 21.11.2017-1.4.2018, Tate, London
- museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) et son marhand Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), 18.9.2023-14.1.2024, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
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