Identification

Published titles

English: Almaïsa; Almaisa; Algerian woman. French: Almaïsa (L’Algérienne); L’Algérienne.

Date

1916–1917?
Many publications date it 1916.
An inscription on the reverse reads 30 June 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query; this investigation also records raw canvas or a brown-toned ground.

Dimensions

55 × 30 cm, recorded with a query. Parisot: 55 × 33 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at lower left, with the inscription L’ALGÉRIENNE at top left. Reverse: 30 juin 1917 and inv. 3042.

Present location

Museum Ludwig, Cologne (ML 76/3042; 3042.Strecker.Erworben.1958). Transferred from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in 1976.

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. W. Strecker Collection (until 1958).
2. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne (acquired 1958; until 1976).
3. Museum Ludwig, Cologne (ML 76/3042), transfer 1976.

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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 82.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 144.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 133.³
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 25/1916.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 134.⁵
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 140.⁶
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁷

Exhibitions

• Cologne, Sammlung Strecker, 1958–59.
• Wolfsburg, French Art from Delacroix to Picasso, 1961, no. 103.
• Tokyo, National Museum, 1985, no. 63; Nagoya, 1985.
• Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Who’s afraid of Nothing?, 1999.
• Nagoya, Himeji, Iwate, 2008.
• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 79.
• London, Tate Modern, Modigliani, 2017–18.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records a smaller related composition known as Woman of Algiers, also in Cologne, and notes that such studies can differ from the larger work.

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.