Identification

Title

Woman with a white blouse / Fillette à la blouse blanche / Jeune fille à la blouse blanche contre une glace au fond / Femme au corsage blanc.

Date

1916?.
The Detroit Institute of Arts dates it 1915.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55.2 × 37.8 cm.

Signature

Unsigned, recorded with a query. Pfannstiel no. 116 is unsigned; no. 232 is signed at top right.

Present location

Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. 2005.61. Gift of the Josephine F. Ford Estate, 2005.

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. Stephen C. Clark Collection, New York (by 1929).
2. Private collection, Paris (by 1956?), recorded with a query in one of the two Pfannstiel entries.
3. Knoedler & Co., New York (1957).
4. Josephine Ford Collection (1957).
5. Detroit Institute of Arts, inv. 2005.61 (gift of the Josephine F. Ford Estate, 2005).

Pfannstiel lists the composition twice. No. 116: private French collection — this investigation notes that this is incompatible with Clark ownership already in 1929; D’Atri no. 1750 places that card in the Clark Collection in 1929, no size, no date. No. 232: Guillaume Collection then Bernheim-Jeune (1929); D’Atri no. 310, 55 × 37 cm, dated 1917, Guillaume Collection 1929.

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.

• Jean Cocteau, Modigliani, Paris and Feldafing, 1953, pl. 10.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 116 and no. 232.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 111.²
• Waldemar George, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1929, p. 27 (as no. 232).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 41 (as no. 232).³

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 21 (property of Stephen C. Clark).

Notes

This investigation records traces of a lost inscription or name, probably in pencil, at bottom right.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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.