Beatrice Hastings (man’s head in Bernheim-Jeune stock)
Oil on canvas, dated February 1916 in this investigation
Identification
- Title
- This investigation titles the work Beatrice Hastings, with a query, and also Man’s head. Bernheim-Jeune stock no. 24405 is titled Tête d’homme.
- Date
- This investigation dates the work February 1916, with a query.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 60 × 48 cm, recorded with a query. Bernheim-Jeune: 62 × 49 cm.
- Signature
- Signed mod at top right, recorded with a query.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Parent Collection, Paris.
- Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired 19 October 1925; stock no. 24405, titled Tête d’homme).
- Gaston Diehl Collection? (acquired 6 May 1926, 12,500 FF).
- Private collection?
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.
- MR, Le silence éternel, Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008, pp. 40–41.
- Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, no. 61, stock no. 24405.
Exhibitions
- Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, 2008, curated by MR.
Notes
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
This investigation publishes comparisons with other portraits identified as Beatrice Hastings (including files numbered 58, 110 and 81 on the site).
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.
