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Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz

Amedeo Modigliani · 1916

Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres de Modigliani, December 11–29, 1920, cat. 14, as Portrait du sculpteur L. et de sa femme.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern European Paintings, September 8–October 8, 1925; Boston, Art Club, Birch Bartlett Collection of Modern French Painting, December 9–26, 1925, cat. 40, as Double Portrait.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 702, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 356, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Portraits, December 9, 1942–January 24, 1943, pl. 66, as Double Portrait (M. and Mme. Jacques Lipchitz), 1916–17; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12–March 7, 1943; Worchester Art Museum, March 24–April 18, 1943.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Italian Art, June 28–September 12, 1949, pl. 52, as Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, January 30–March 18, 1951, as Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife, 1916–17; New York, Museum of Modern Art, April 11–June 10, 1951.
Rome, Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Sixth Quadrennial National Art Exhibition of Rome [VI Quadriennale nazionale d’arte di Roma], December 15, 1951–April 1952, cat. 9, as Jacques Lipchitz e sua moglie, 1917.
Paris, Musée national d’arte moderne, May–June 1952, cat. 72; London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Twentieth-Century Masterpieces: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, July 15–August 17, 1952, cat. 66, as Portrait of Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife, 1917.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at People, November 13, 1958–January 11, 1959, no cat.
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, January 19–April 1, 1991, cat. 49, as Jacques Lipchitz und seine Frau, 1917; Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, April 19–July 7, 1991.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003; cat. 9, as Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, February 9–May 25, 2003; and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 29–Sept. 28, 2003.

Literature

Published references

Galerie Montaigne, Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres de Modigliani exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Montaigne, 1920), n.p., cat. 14, as Portrait du sculpteur L. et de sa femme.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1925), p. 169, cat. 2294, as Double Portrait.
F., “The Birch-Bartlett Loan Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, XIX, no. 7 (October 1925), p. 82.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), pp. 44. 45 (ill.), 59, as Double Portrait.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, no. 6 (December 1928), p. 235, as Double Portrait.
Sherwood, Walter J., “The Famous Birsh Bartlett Collection,” The Chicago Visitor (October, 1932), p. 40, as Double Portrait.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections (Chicago: Art Institute, 1933), p. 79, cat. 702, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture (Chicago: Art Institute, 1934), p. 53, cat. 356, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
Wheeler, Monroe, Twentieth-Century Portraits exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), pp. 16, 140, pl. 66 (ill.), as Double Portrait (M. and Mme. Jacques Lipchitz), 1916–17.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial, from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1946), pp. 36, 37 (ill.), 58, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife).
Soby, James Thrall and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Twentieth-Century Italian Art exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949), pp. 24, pl. 52 (ill.), as Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife.
Lipchitz, Jacques, “I Remember Modigliani,” Art News 49 (February 1951), pp. 27 (ill.), 28–29, 64–65.

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