Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)
1916
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About this work
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.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 81.3 × 54.3 cm (32 × 21 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 14 exhibitions
Provenance
- Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, acquired directly from the artist, 1916; by exchange to Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, c. 1921; sold to Frederick C. and Helen Birch Bartlett, Chicago, 1922; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Exposition rétrospective des oeuvres de Modigliani, December 11–29, 1920, n.p., as Portrait du sculpteur L. et de sa femme.
- 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, as Double Portrait.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, as Double Portrait (Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife).
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Portraits, December 9, 1942–January 24, 1943, 140, as Double Portrait (M. and Mme. Jacques Lipchitz), 1916–17; traveled to 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, as Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, January 30–March 18, 1951, as Jacques Lipchitz and his Wife, 1916–17; traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, April 11–June 10, 1951.
- Rome, Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Sixth Quadrennial National Art Exhibition of Rome, December 15, 1951–April 1952, as Jacques Lipchitz e sua moglie, 1917.
- Paris, Musée national d’arte moderne, May–June 1952; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Twentieth-Century Masterpieces: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, July 15–August 17, 1952, as Portrait of Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife, 1917.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at People, November 13, 1958–January 11, 1959, no cat. Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, January 19–April 1, 1991, 95, as Jacques Lipchitz und seine Frau, 1917; traveled to Zürich, Kunsthaus, April 19–July 7, 1991.
- Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, October 19, 2002–January 12, 2003;, 86 (ill.), as Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916; traveled to Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, February 9–May 25, 2003; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 29–September 28, 2003.
- Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani March 21–June 17, 2007, 55, 90, as Portrait of Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1917.
- Fort Worth, Kimball Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat., Tate Modern, Modigliani, Nov. 23, 2017–Apr. 2, 2018, no cat. Stuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Modigliani: Modern Gazes, Nov. 24, 2023–Apr. 1, 2024; Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Apr. 27–Aug. 18, 2024 (Stuttgart only).
