girl in a green blouse
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 137 Nº 407 Nº114 YES ? Nº 118 ? ?
Date 1917 (the museum dates in 1917)
Title Girl in a green blouse - Le Corsage Vert - Femme au corsage vert
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 81.3 x 46 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.45)
Provenance -?-
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Patani say Georges Chéron Collection, Paris but there is no proof of this
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Mme. Carrière collection, Paris
Bernheim Jeune Galerie, Paris (acquired from above 19 / march / 1921 - Inv. Nº 22585)
Mme. Bosch Collection, Paris? (acquired from above 8 / February /1922 - 3.000 FF)
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Marcel Norero Collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 February 1927, p.80, as Le Corsage Vert
Bignou, Paris (sold to Chester Dale 5-April-1927)
Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired from above 1927)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (Inv. Nº 1963.10.45)
Chester Dale Bequest in 1963 to NGA

In process

Bibliography -?-


Dale, Modigliani, Knopf, New York, 1929 - nº 37 as Le corsage vert
Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929 - nº 100 as Le corsage vert
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 22 as Le corsage vert
Read, "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 - 15 February 1930, p. 81
Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. 1943 - as The Green Blouse
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 137 as Le corsage vert (dated in 1917)
National Gallery of Art, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, p. 90
National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965, p. 62
National Gallery of Art, uropean Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968, p. 80
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 407 (dated in 1919)
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 114 (dated in 1916)
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975, p. 234
Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984, p. 586 - nº 899
National Gallery of Art, European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985, p. 272
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 118 (dated in 1916)
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process


Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - nº 22 -titled Femme au corsage vert
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922
Glasgow, A Century of French Painting, McLellan Gallery, 1927 - nº 54
London, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, Reid & Lefevre Galleries, 1929
New York, Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., 1931 - nº 15
Philadelphia, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951
Washington, D.C, The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965
Washington, D.C., Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, 1983-84

In process

Other
Nº 191 in D'Atri papers - size 80.5 x 45 dated 1917 with reference to the Nonero sale in 1927 and Bignou provenance


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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
signature

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This painting presents holes in the 3 corners (probably 4th is covered by restoration)

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The eyes / eyebrow / eyelash / nose of this painting:

eyes


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This painting present a complete fingerprint set of the 4 fingers of the right hand of an unknown person.
This fingerprints were stamped when the oil painting was fresh and recent and are the result of handlimg the work .

There is one ring finger on the top center and other 3 and the same ring finger in the bottom center:

Finger print in the top center:

fingerprints top

Finger prints in the bottom:

fingerprints bottom
On top the visual image on bottom the negative IR to enhance the image

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The painting framed at the National Gallery of Art in 2018, as can be seen in the lower images the frame is the same since the 40's only the plaque has been removed:

framed at the National Gallery of Art in 2018

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The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment in New York, photo dated in 1941:

The painting framed at theChester Dale New York Apartment in 1941

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The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment at the Plaza in New York, photo dated in 1961:

The painting framed at the Chester Dale Apartment at the Plaza in New York, photo dated in 1961


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