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Paul Guillaume

Artist Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1915

DimensionsPainting: 29 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (74.9 × 52.1 cm)
Frame: 42 × 32 1/2 × 2 in. (106.7 × 82.6 × 5.1 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy

Object number

1951.382

On View

External Site Address (External address), On Loan

Label TextIn 1914, Amedeo Modigliani met the Parisian art dealer and writer Paul Guillaume (1891–1939). Guillaume specialized in African art and contemporary avant-garde artists, such as Picasso and Matisse. He became one of Modigliani’s earliest supporters and his dealer. From 1914 to 1916, Modigliani executed four portraits in oil and several drawings of Guillaume. In this painting made in September of 1915, Modigliani captured the young art dealer at age 23, seated in his library. As in his other portraits, he reduces the features to their essentials and elongates the form. By carefully selecting and emphasizing a few details, Modigliani provided clues to Guillaume’s personality. A bookshelf and piano in the background hint at intellect and culture. The small, pursed lips and severely trimmed mustache seem petulant. Guillaume’s almond-shaped eyes have been painted without pupils or irises—suggesting the impenetrable stylization of a mask, like the African masks Guillaume admired. [image caption:] Paul Guillaume at his desk, Paris, about 1915.Published ReferencesW. George, La grande peinture contemporaine a la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris , n.d. (1929), pp. 142, 188, repr. p. 138.

A. Pffanstiel, Modigliani, Parils, 1929, p. 6, repr. opp. p. 18.

A. Pffanstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, Paris, 1956, no. 36, p. 66.

A. Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani, MIlan, 1958, p. 50, fig. 56.

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Stefa and Leon Brillouin, 1959, p. 22.

L. Piccioni and A. Ceroni, I dipinti di Modigliani, MIlan, 1970, no. 101.

The Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 112-113, pl. 40.

A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1966, repr.

"African Art," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 16, no. 2, 1973, p. 28, repr., fig. 1.

The Toledo Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, repr. p. 91 (col.).

Hoog, Michael, Catalogue de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1984, repr. p. 6.

Diehl, Gaston, Modigliani, New York, 1989, repr. p. 32 (col.).

Ravin, Dr. James, M.C., "Modigliani," Ohio Medicine Magazine, December, 1991, repr. cover.

Patani, Osvaldo, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale: dipinti, Milan, 1992, no. 102, repr. p. 122 (col.).

Great French paintings from the Barnes Foundation, New York, 1993, fig. 11, p. 39.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 164, repr. (col.).

Von Matisse bis Dali; De Matisse a Dali, Bern, 1998, repr. p. 78.

Roberts, Mary Nooter, Facing Africa: the AFrican art collection of the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1998, p. 59, repr.

Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist & Modern Art: evening; auction catalogue - November 7, 2006, pp. 180-181, repr. (col.) p. 181, fig. 4.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 308, repr. (col.).

Christies, Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale, London, p. 80, repr. (col.) 81.

Sounjou SEO, Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Seoul, Hangaram Arts Museum, 2015, p. 58, repr. (col.) p. 59.

Verdavaine, Stephanie et al., Amedeo Modigliani: The Inner Eye, France, Musee LaM and Gallimard, 2016, repr. (col.) fig. 67.

Buckley, Barbara, ed. et al., Modigliani Up Close, Barnes Foundation, Yale University Press, 2022, cat. no. 10 (col.), p. 77, p. 76-79.

Fraquelli, Simonetta, and Cecile Girardeau, Modigliani: Un peintre et son Marchand, Paris, France, Flammarion, 2023, p. 60, repr. cat. 49, p. 86.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The Collection of Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy, 1964, p. 20, repr. p. 21.

Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981, no. 31, repr. (col.) p. 119.

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Modigliani, 1985, no. 52, p. 177, repr. (col.).

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modigliani & the artists of Montparnasse, 2002-2003, no. 7, p. 47, 177, repr. (col.) p. 84.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Modigliani: beyond the myth, 2004-2005, p. 52-53, 204, pl. 37, (col.), p. 122.

London, Royal Academy of Art, Modigliani and his models, 2006, no. 12, p. 149, repr. p. 88 (col.).

Seoul, Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, Amadeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, Jun. 26-Oct. 4, 2015.

Philadelphia, Barnes Foundation, Modigliani Up Close, Oct. 16, 2022 - Jan. 29, 2023. Paris, France, Musee de l'Orangerie, Amedeo Modigliani and His Art Dealer Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), September 19, 2023 - January 15, 2024.