Young woman of the people  by Amedeo Modigliani
Image Courtesy of LACMA
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO? Nº 384 Nº 316 YES YES Nº 328 YES YES
Date 1918-1919 ? (probably 1918, but that would also change the date of 3 other paintings with similar background)
Title Young woman of the people - Dark haired woman seated in front of a bed - Germaine Lable - Young girl seated - Daughter of the people - Working girl
Materials oil on canvas
Size 100.3 x 65.1 cm? (Museum 89.5 x 64.1 cm - Ceroni, Patani 102 x 65 - D'Atri 81 x 50 -Wayne, Klein 100 x 64.5 - Burlington study 100.3 x 65.1)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA (Inv. Nº M.68.46.2)
Provenance -?-
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Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Dutilleul Collection, Paris
J. Doucet Collection, Paris
A. Lefèvre Collection, Paris
Hammmer Galleries, New York ( in 1954)

Patani: Sale Palais Galliera, Paris - 25 / 11 / 1965?

Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles


Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA (Inv. Nº M.68.46.2)
Frances and Armand Hammer Purchase Fund (M.68.46.2)

In process

Bibliography

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Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, p. 80 - titled La Fille du peuple - dated 1918 - Hammer Galleries New York
San Lazzaro, Modigliani-Portraits, Hazan, Paris, 1957 - nº 4 - titled Daughter of the people
San Lazzaro, Modigliani portraits, Tudor Publishing, New York, 1957, pl. 4
Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 80 - titled working girl - dated 1918 - private collection, Paris
Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 55
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 384 - titled Youn woman (la fille du peuple) - dated Nice 1919
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 316 - titled Dark haired woman seated in front of a bed (Germaine Lable) - dated 1919 - size 102 x 65
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 316 - titled Dark haired woman seated in front of a bed (Germaine Lable) - dated 1919 - size 102 x 65
Donahue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Handbook., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990, p. 132 - nº 80 - dated 1918
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 328 - titled Dark haired woman seated in front of a bed (Germaine Lable) - dated 1919 - size 102 x 65
Kruszynski. Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes. Munich, 1996, p. 78
Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884-1920 : itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR edition, 1996, p. 149
Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 108 - nº 31 - titled Young woman of the people - dated 1918 - size 100 x 64.5
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 51 - dated 1918
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 140 - nº 56 - titled Young woman of the people - dated 1918 - size 100 x 64.5
López Blázquez, Modigliani, Polìgrafía, Barcelona, 2005, p. 51 - titled Daughter of the people - dated 1919
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Muchnic, LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making, San Marino, Huntington Library, 2015
Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 171 - dated 1918
King, Centeno, Duvernois, Fronek, Townsend, The Modigliani Technical Research Styudy, Modigliani in the South of France, The Burlington Magazine, CLX, London, May 2018, pp. 394-399 - dated 1918 - size 100.3 x 65.1

In process

Exhibitions -?-
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Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925 - nº 12
Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 72 (titled "la fille du peuple" - dated 1919)
Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 ?
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Memphis, The Armand Hammer Collection, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1969
New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, 1971 - nº 50 (dated 1919)
Palm Beach, The Armand Hammer Collection Five Centuries of Masterpieces, Norton Gallery of Art, 1981
Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 85
Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - nº 85
Buffalo NY, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox Gallery, 2002-2003 - nº 31
Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - nº 31
Los Angeles, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003 - nº 31
Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

In process

Other
Nº 72 in D' Atri papers as la fille du peuple) - 61 x 46 - dated 1919 - Provenance in Zborowski Collection, Paris ( in 1929)

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Signature:

signature

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Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color

ears

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This painting was part of the Modigliani technical research study in 2018

Extract from:
The Modigliani technical research study "Modigliani in the South of France"
King, Centeno, Duvernois, Fronek, Townsend, T
Burlington Magazine CLX - May 2018, pp. 394-399

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In this painting the identification of the pigments is:

1.- Chrome yellow (Chromium and cadmium based)
2.- Lead and Zinc white
3.- Vermilion
4.- Ochre
5.- Prussian blue
6.- Bone black (or ivory black?)
7.- Chrome Orange? (barium observed)

General Museum technical studies have reached the conclusion that is a very short palette, a simple range made with pre industrial oils (non artisan, but small scale industrial oils).

in the background preparation:
1.- Lead white and probably Calcium based white

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The background of this painting is repeated in another painting:
Young woman of the people amedeo modiglianiPink Blouse amedeo modigliani
The same bed is also present in this painting:
Lunia in black amedeo modigliani

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The painting framed at London, Modigliani, Tate, 2017-2018:

framed

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