Art Institute of Chicago
Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
Amedeo ModiglianiLinkedCulture matchlcp-bfc75ba621ed
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Modern Art
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 27987
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
After receiving artistic training in Italy, the sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani moved to the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse in 1906. It was there that he met the artist Jacques Lipchitz, who, wanting to help his financially troubled friend, commissioned Modigliani to paint this portrait on the occasion of his marriage to the Russian poet Berthe Kitrosser. According to Lipchitz, the picture took Modigliani only two days to paint, though Lipchitz persuaded him to work on it for another two weeks in an effort to pay him a larger fee. Despite Modigliani’s exceptional talent, his work only found a market after his death in 1920, which was hastened by tuberculosis and his legendary bohemian lifestyle.
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- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), Paris, acquired directly from the artist, 1916 [Lipchitz 1954]; by exchange to Léonce Rosenberg (1879–1947), Galerie de l’Effort Moderne, Paris, c. 1921 [Paris 1920; Lipchitz 1954; Benezra 1986]; sold to Frederick C. (1873–1953) and Helen Birch (1883-1925) Bartlett, Chicago, 1922 [Benezra 1986]; upon her death, given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 27, 1926.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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