Profile of a young girl
Oil on canvas, dated 1912?
Identification
- Title
- Profile of a young girl.
- Date
- 1912?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 52 × 35.6 cm.
- Signature
- Signed A. Modigliani at bottom left.
- Present location
- Unknown. The last named collection in this investigation is the Vincent Price Collection, Los Angeles (from 1961).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.
Provenance
- Paul Guillaume, Paris (recorded with a query).
- R. Shereshewsky, Paris.
- J. Paul Lamb, Cleveland (recorded as in his possession in 1928).
- Vincent Price Collection, Los Angeles (from 1961).
- Subsequent location unknown.
The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.
Selected bibliography
Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.
- The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (November 1929), p. 171.
- Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum, 1961, p. 31.
Exhibitions
- Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, French Art since 1800, 1929 (lent by Paul Lamb).
- Cambridge, Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, School of Paris, 1910–1928, 1929.
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition, 1933 (probably no. 87).
- Beverly Hills, Modern Institute of Art, Modern Artists in Transition, 1948.
- Los Angeles County Fair, 1949.
- Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 2.
Notes
This investigation publishes a letter in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in which Jacques Seligmann & Co. asked Paul Lamb to lend the work to the De Hauke exhibition in New York in 1929.
This investigation also publishes a Guillaume Gallery record associating this work with another painting sold by Guillaume to Lamb, whose present identification is not given.
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.
The original this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
