Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman with a rose; Margherita; Margherita with a rose.

Date

1916?
Pfannstiel 1956 dates it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

64.9 × 46.1 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, in red.

Present location

Hays Collection, Nashville; permanent loan to the Musée d’Orsay from 2019.

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. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 October 1926, lot 44.
2. Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris.
3. Private collection, France (acquired c. 1927).
4. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22 June 1993, lot 47.
5. Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale).
6. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 10 May 2000, sale 7466, lot 34; estimate USD 3,000,000–4,000,000.
7. Galerie Nichido, Tokyo.
8. Private collection (February 2001–2016).
9. Sale, Christie’s, New York, Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, 12 May 2016, sale 12069, lot 7c; estimate USD 12,000,000–18,000,000; sold USD 12,765,000.
10. Hays Collection, Nashville; permanent loan to the Musée d’Orsay, 2019.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 37, as La jeune fille à la rose.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 224 (dated 1917).²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 43, no. 177.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 159.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 128.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 131.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 21/1916.⁷
• MR, 2002, mention p. 246.⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917, no. 10 was a portrait of Margherita; which of the three known portraits was shown is unpublished.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 46 (dated 1917; 65 × 46 cm).
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 20.
• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, 1992–93, no. 40.

Notes

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas, with a query.

This investigation publishes comparative photographs after removal of an old varnish and notes a change in the orange of the face and the red of the cheeks. Those photographs are recorded as published facts.

The working notes for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.