Identification

Published titles

English: Lolotte; Woman with a beret; Woman with a hat; Woman bust with flowers.

Date

1916?
The Centre Pompidou dates it June 1917.
Dorival 1962 dates it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55 × 35.5 cm. A 1962 publication gives 58 × 35 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, in white. Inscribed on the reverse: LOLOTTE.

Present location

MNAM – Centre Pompidou, Paris (inv. JP 558 P). Acquired 1932.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1924, recorded with a query).
3. Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1932).
4. Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris (1998, as recorded).
5. MNAM – Centre Pompidou, Paris (inv. JP 558 P).

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. 34, no. 3.¹
• Pierre Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, Braun, 1951, pl. 40 (located at Bernheim-Jeune while already at the Jeu de Paume).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 206.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 77.³
• Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961, pl. 42.
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 139.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 137.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 8/1916.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 139.⁷
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁸

Exhibitions

• Valenciennes, 1956, no. 36; Reims, 1957, no. 36; Cardiff, 1957, no. 50; London, 1957, no. 111.
• Montreal, 1967; Cairo, 1969, no. 38; Istanbul, 1969, no. 38; Kyoto and Tokyo, 1973; Moscow, 1978.
• Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, 1980, no. 10.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 92.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 55.
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum, Masters of the School of Paris, 2011 (Sylvie Buisson).
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani and the School of Paris, 2013, no. 12.
• Pisa, BLU Palazzo d’arte e cultura, Amedeo Modigliani et ses amis, 2014–15.
• Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 313; located at Bernheim-Jeune in 1924.

This investigation records holes on three sides of the support.

This investigation identifies the same sitter as in the necklace portrait catalogued as 1916-w-56.

A 2019 study by the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France is recorded photographically.

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.