Woman Head
Oil on canvas, dated 1916?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Young woman head; Young woman - Malinconia
- Date
- 1916?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 54 × 46 cm.?
- Signature
- Signed modiglian at top right.
- Present location
- Unknown in this investigation.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 135 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO? |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| 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
- Unknown
- Dr. Soubies Collection, France (previous to 1927?)
- Bernheim Jeune, Paris (acquired from above 27 / November / 1929)
- Art Moderne (acquired from above 1 / May / 1930 - 60.000 FF)
- V. Dudensing Collection, New York ?
- Wright Ludington 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.
- Note e Ricordi su Amedeo Mogigliani, 1884-1920. - Genoa, S.A.I.G.A., 1945
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970, nº 135
- Patrice/ Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015 - nº 51 as woman head, stock nº 26243
Exhibitions
- ?
Notes
This investigation marks the work has not been located in the D’Atri papers.
In Lanthemann text: "Portait of a marvellous color harmonie"
Similar image of the same painting or an almost identical one (with other colors and the mouth closed)
House and garden magazine, 1983 photos from Wright Ludington Collection.
The image in Lanthemann has nothing to do with the image in Bernheim Jeune publication, they must be 2 identical paintings, but the colors and brushwork id not the same:
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.