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Portrait of Dr. Paul Alexandre
- 1909
- Oil on canvas
- 100.5 x 81.5 cm
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Born in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani went to Paris in January 1906 to execute paintings. In November of the following year, he was acquainted with a man who would be a model for this work—Dr. Paul Alexandre, physician and art lover. He was the first person who got interested in the work of Modigliani. Dr. Alexandre was a patron of Modigliani, encouraged this young painter, and continued to purchase his works until the doctor was forced to go to the First World War in 1914. The highly knowledgeable French art lover, Paul Alexandre, had close relationships with public institutions that had chances to introduce unknown artists to the general public, art dealers, and collectors, and supported Modigliani and his artistic activities in various aspects. In 1908, Modigliani began to frequently visit an artists’ colony founded by Dr. Alexandre and his brother Jean.
In 1909, Modigliani painted three portraits of the doctor, of which this one was exquisitely painted and attained the highest degree of perfection. Like The Riding Habit (Private collection, New York) painted in the same year, it is a three-quarter portrait in which the model posed with his left hand placed on his hip.
A series of the portraits of Dr. Alexandre, in a sense, evokes the tradition in Italian painting, dating back to the Renaissance, of “patrons having their portraits painted in return for their financial support.” Around the same time that he painted this work, Modigliani formed a friendship with the sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, and for several years thereafter, he devoted himself to sculpture. It didn’t mean, however, that he gave up painting, and consequently led to the development of the so-called “Modigliani style” with its elongated and deformed figures from 1914 onward. This work is an exceptional painting in his early career that is imbued with the fresh sense of the young Modigliani.
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ARTIST
Amedeo Modigliani
(1884-1920)
Exhibit history
- Sep 17, 2022 (Sat)～Nov 20, 2022 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings - Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum - Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan) - Apr 9, 2022 (Sat)～Jul 18, 2022 (Mon)
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka, Japan) - Oct 23, 2021 (Sat)～Dec 26, 2021 (Sun)
The 400 Years of Western Painting: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan) - Jul 9, 2021 (Fri)～Aug 29, 2021 (Sun)
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan) - Dec 15, 2020 (Tue)～Jan 31, 2021 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan) - Sep 12, 2020 (Sat)～Nov 3, 2020 (Tue)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan) - Jul 22, 2020 (Wed)～Sep 6, 2020 (Sun)
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan) - Feb 20, 2020 (Thu)～Apr 12, 2020 (Sun)
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan) - Nov 2, 2019 (Sat)～Dec 22, 2019 (Sun)
“Rendez-vous” through Arts―East Meets West― Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi (Osaka, Japan) - Sep 3, 2019 (Tue)～Oct 22, 2019 (Tue)
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan) - Jan 12, 2019 (Sat)～May 4, 2019 (Sat)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China) - Oct 23, 2018 (Tue)～Dec 23, 2018 (Sun)
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China) - Apr 29, 2017 (Sat)～Jun 25, 2017 (Sun)
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan) - Jun 26, 2015 (Fri)～Oct 4, 2015 (Sun)
Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center (Seoul. South Korea) - Aug 12, 2008 (Tue)～Oct 5, 2008 (Sun)
Amedeo Modigliani Iwate Museum of Art (Iwate, Japan) - Apr 5, 2008 (Sat)～Jun 1, 2008 (Sun)
Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan) - Jul 21, 2007 (Sat)～Aug 19, 2007 (Sun)
Paris est une fête: les années 1920 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan) - Mar 31, 2007 (Sat)～May 6, 2007 (Sun)
Paris est une fête: les années 1920 Hiroshima Museum of Art (Hiroshima, Japan) - Apr 18, 2003 (Fri)～May 25, 2003 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan) - Oct 12, 2002 (Sat)～Nov 10, 2002 (Sun)
Invitation to Occidental Painting Arts: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Art Abashiri Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan) - Sep 7, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 29, 2002 (Sun)
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection SOGO Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) - Jul 20, 2002 (Sat)～Sep 1, 2002 (Sun)
The Great Masters of Art Hida Takayama Museum of Art (Gifu, Japan) - May 16, 2002 (Thu)～Jun 23, 2002 (Sun)
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art (Kumamoto, Japan) - Oct 1, 2000 (Sun)～Dec 3, 2000 (Sun)
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan) - Oct 16, 1992 (Fri)～Nov 5, 1992 (Thu)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China) - Nov 3, 1990 (Sat)～Dec 2, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Art Museum (Yongin-gun, Kyunggi-do, South Korea) - Sep 22, 1990 (Sat)～Oct 21, 1990 (Sun)
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting Ho-Am Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Origin of collections
- Exhibited :
Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1909
Bruxelles, Palais des Baux-Arts de Bruselles, no.90
Paris, Galerie Carpentier, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani (titled Portrais inachevé), 1958, no.5 (illustrated)
Reference
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani, p.3 of the Catalogue présumé
J. Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, no.25, p.166 (illustrated)
A. Pfannstiel, Moddigliani et son œuvre, Paris, 1956, catalogue raisonné, no.13, p.60 (illustrated)
C. Roy, Modigliani, Geneva, 1985, p.33 (illustrated)
F. Cachin & A. Ceroni, Tout l’œuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, p.88 (illustrated color plate II)
Ambrogio Ceroni, I Dipinti de Modigliani, Milan, 1970, p.89, no.15, p.88 (illustrated)
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