A Man, 1916

  • Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 18 1/8 × 15 inches (46 × 38.1 cm)
  • 28 3/8 × 24 13/16 × 3 3/4 inches (72.1 × 63 × 9.5 cm)

Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

70.186

On View

  • Modern, Level 2, North

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed, upper right: Modigliani

By December 1920, Oscar Miestchaninoff [1884-1956], Paris, France

December 17, 1920-May 27, 1924, [Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France]

from May 27, 1924, (Paul Guillaume [1891-1934], Paris, France)

by November 1929-1934, [Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, USA]

November 14, 1934, purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Williams, Marguerite B. "Art News and Exhibitions in Chicago: Chester Johnson's French Moderns." Parnassus 1, no. 7 (November 1929): p. 11 [as Self-Portrait]. Exh. cat., American Art Association Anderson Galleries. 1934, no. 54 (ill.). [R.H. Tannahill purchased from sale on November 14, 1934] Ceroni, Ambrogio. Amedeo Modigliani: Dessins et Sculptures: avec suite du catalogue illustré des peintres. Milan, 1965, no. 174, (ill. b/w) [as Tête d'homme, 1915]. The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 29, 50 (ill.). Ceroni, Ambrogio. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, trans. Simone Darses. Flammarion, 1972, p. 92, no. 87 (ill.). Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Floriane. Amedeo Modigliani Chez Bernheim-Jeune. Paris, 2015, monograph, no. 57, (ill. b/w) [as Portrait d'homme].

Amedeo Modigliani, A Man, 1916, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.186.