Identification

Published titles

English: The Blond Renée; Young woman head; Woman with crucifix

Date

1916 (MASP, Sao Paulo)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61 × 38cm.

Signature

Signed modiglian at bottom right in white.

Present location

MASP, Sao Paulo, Brazil ( Inv. Nº MASP.00149)

Catalogue numbers

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

1. Unknown.
2. Sabourad Coll. Paris.
3. Reaber Coll. Basel
4. Gallerie Durand, Paris.
5. Mathiessen Coll. ?
6. ?
7. Guilherme Giorgi Coll. Brazil (+1936) ?
   
8. MASP, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Donation by Cotonifício Guilherme Giorgi S.A., 1951
   Inv. Nº MASP.00149

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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p.6, nº 3
• Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani. Braun, Paris, 1951, pl. 33
  
• Musée de l' Orangerie, Paris, 1953, p. 72
  
• Central Museum Utrecht, 1954, p. 93
  
• Kunstmuseum, Bern, 1954, pl. 63
  
• Tate Gallery, London, 1954, pl. 36
  
• Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1954, p. 55
  
• Valsecchi, Amedeo Modigliani, Garzant, Milano 1954, pl. 105
  
• Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Braun, Paris, 1954, pl. 33
  
• Bardi, Milano, 1956, p. 272
  
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, nº 104
  
• Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 18
  
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958, nº 78
  
• Geza, Modigliani, Tchekoslovakia, 1969, nº 31
  
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970, nº 177
  
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970, nº 137
  
• Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989, nº 29
  
• L' Art Moderne du monde, nº 16, p. 16.
  
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 nº 26/1916
  
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94, nº 138
  
• Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 53

Exhibitions

• Bruxelles, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 40 (dated in 1917)
  
• Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934
  
• Paris, Musée de l' Orangerie, Paris, 1953
  
• Bruxelles, Modigliani. Palais des beaux-arts, 1954
  
• Utrecht, Central Museum, 1954
  
• Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1954
  
• London, Tate gallery, 1954
  
• Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, 1954
  
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958
  
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957
  
• Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - nº 54
  
• Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - nº 28
  
• Torino, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015

Notes

This painting present holes in the 4 corners (some of them have been restored and half covered)
This investigation marks the work is recorded as nº 40 by d'Atri and dated in 1917.

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.