Jeanne Hébuterne with a cloche hat

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne with a cloche hat; Girl with blue eyes.
French: Jeanne Hébuterne à la cloche.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on cardboard. Sotheby’s catalogued the support as panel in error; MR has published it as oil on canvas.

Dimensions

67 × 51.5 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Galerie Bing, Paris.
3. Netter Collection, Paris (acquired 1926; sold 1929).
4. E. Bignou Collection, Paris (acquired 1929).
5. Frank Crowninshield Collection, New York (recorded 1932 and 1938).
6. This investigation notes that a Belien Collection, Brussels, 1953, citation is a confusion with another Jeanne Hébuterne with a large hat.
7. Edward A. Bragaline Collection (visible 1963 and 1971).
8. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 1 May 1996, lot 44.
9. Private collection, Paris.
10. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 2 November 2010, lot 14 (estimate USD 9,000,000–12,000,000; sold USD 19,122,500), property sold to benefit YoungArts.
11. 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.

• Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration XXVIII (July 1925), p. 203, as Woman portrait.
• André Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1926, pl. 3.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 27; 1956, no. 120.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 83 (dated 1916–17; oil on canvas).²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 186.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 174.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 179 (oil on canvas, 1917).⁵
• MR, 2008, pp. 98–99 (dated 1917; oil on canvas).⁶

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 26 and again as no. 32 (incorrect provenance and title in the catalogue).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition, 1932, as Girl with blue eyes.
• New York, Wildenstein, Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, 1938, no. 26.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, La Femme dans l’art français, 1953, no. 92.
• New York, Knoedler, Bragaline Collection, 1963, no. 6.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 22 (Bragaline Collection).

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 180, Mme Hébuterne, 64.5 × 52 cm, dated 1917, Netter → Bignou.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Some holes are covered by restoration; the pin mark remains visible.

Infrared image published in this investigation shows the drawn contour and that the necklace was added after the neck.

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