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Artist or Maker: AMEDEO MODIGLIANI 1884 - 1920

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Description: PORTRAIT DE VLAMINCK
Signed Modigliani and inscribed à Vlaminck capitaine de navire (lower left); titled Wlamink (upper center)

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Medium: Pencil on paper laid down on card

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Dimensions: 13 3/8 by 9 7/8 in. 34 by 25.1 cm

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Provenance: Private Collection, France
Private Collection
Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris
Acquired from the above

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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 183
Tokyo, Grand Magazin Seibu; Kyoto, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Modigliani, 1968, no. 20

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Published: Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 981, illustrated p. 378
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani, catalogo generale disegni 1906-1920, Milan, 1994, no. 68, illustrated p. 72

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Notes:

In 1906, Amedeo Modigliani, like so many artists before him, was drawn to the art capital of the world: Paris. The young Italian soon found an exciting comraderie with his fellow artists and writers, and left his formal studies for their stimpulating company in the cafés and bars of Montparnasse. It was there that he met Francis Picabia, André Derain, Max Jacob and the subject of the present portrait, Maurice de Vlaminck, who is shown here in a jaunty cap and described in an inscription as a "Captain of the Navy".

Fig. 1 Maurice de Vlaminck in 1899