Christina
Oil on canvas, dated 1916?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Christina.
French: Jeune fille. - Date
- 1916?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 80 × 69 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO? |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO? |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO? |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Hermann d’Audretsch, The Hague.
- E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (acquired from the above, 1937).
- Mr and Mrs M. R. Chipman, London and Montreal (acquired from the above, 9 December 1937).
- Mrs Margo Reeves, Toronto (daughter of the above).
- Sale, Bonhams, London, sale 11174, Modern & Contemporary Art, 21 June 2004, lot 53; sold £1,546,650. The sale note recorded a certificate of authenticity from MR dated 7 May 2001, Paris, with a statement that the work would be included in a forthcoming catalogue raisonné to be published by the Wildenstein Institute, and a photographic certificate from the Archives Légales Amedeo Modigliani dated 20 April 2004, Paris.
- Private collection.
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.
- Barcelo / Ostiguy, “Expositions,” Vie des arts, no. 8, 1960 (as Jeune fille, lent by I. A. Chipman, Montreal).
Exhibitions
- Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Collects, 1860–1960, 1960, no. 135.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation asks whether the work could be Pfannstiel no. 99. That identification is not confirmed in the published catalogues listed here.
This investigation records holes at the corners of the support.
This investigation records an almost identical composition with different colours (file 1916-w-84).
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
