The young Lolotte

Identification

Published titles

English: The young Lolotte / Suzanne Valadon?.
French: Madame L.

Date

1917? Parisot dated the work 1918; Lanthemann 1916; MR 1917?; Klein 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm?

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Private collection, Switzerland?

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris?
2. Private collection, Switzerland?

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.

• L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1922.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 149 in the bibliography line (the table prints no. 148), as Madame L., dated 1916.¹
• Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 147.²
• Christian Parisot, Fondazione Cini, 1999, no. 138.
• Mason Klein, The Jewish Museum, 2004–05, p. 150, pl. 66, dated 1918.³
• MR, Tokyo, 2008, no. 39, dated 1917 as Young Lolotte.

Exhibitions

• Venice, Fondazione Cini, Modigliani e i suoi, 1999, no. 138 (Parisot).
• Bari, Castello Svevo, 2003 (Parisot).
• Caserta, Belvedere di San Leucio, 2003.
• The Jewish Museum, 2004–05, no. 67 in one source-file line, dated circa 1918 (the same file marks the exhibition number as uncertain).
• Tokyo / Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 39 (MR).
• Bonn, 2009, no. 106.
• Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, 2017.

Notes

This investigation asks whether this canvas is the lost portrait of Mme Lederlin last recorded in a private Zurich collection in 1934, which would then correspond to Pfannstiel nos. 93 and 323.

This investigation records a related portrait of the same sitter known as Elena Picard (this investigation’s 1917-w-119).

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