Identification

Title

Madame Kisling.

Date

1916?
The National Gallery of Art dates it c. 1917.
Pfannstiel dates it 1917 or possibly earlier.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

46.2 × 33.2 cm. Pfannstiel and Ceroni: 46 × 32 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., inv. 1963.10.175. Chester Dale Bequest, 1963.

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. Bignou Collection, Paris.
2. Leicester Galleries, London.
3. Chester Dale Collection, New York (acquired 20 April 1927 at Leicester Galleries for £215).
4. National Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 1963.10.175 (Chester Dale Bequest, 1963).

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.

• Maud Dale, Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection, New York, 1929, no. 96.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 26.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 165.²
• National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Washington, 1952 (and later editions).
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 107.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 103.⁴
• John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, rev. ed., New York, 1984, p. 588, no. 907.
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁵

Exhibitions

• New York, Wildenstein Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Modern French Art from the Chester Dale Collection, 1928, no. 29.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, 1929.
• New York, Demotte, Amedeo Modigliani, 1931, no. 10.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1952; The Chester Dale Bequest, 1965.
• Malibu, Fort Worth and Washington, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1983–1984.

Notes

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.