Young brunette with a fringe

Identification

Published titles

English: Young brunette with a fringe; Portrait; Girl with a fringe; Young brunette.
Italian: Ragazza con frangia.

Date

1918 in Pfannstiel, Lanthemann and Patani.

Medium

Oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

65 × 46 cm (unconfirmed).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection. Last named holder in this investigation: Jessi Collection, Milan, around 1968.

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.
3. Gualino Collection, Turin (published there in July 1930).
4. Z. Pisa S.A.F., Milan, 7 February 1934, lot 187, pl. CXXIV.
5. Galleria della Lanterna, Milan (by 1946).
6. Jessi Collection, Milan (around 1968?).
7. 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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 35.¹
• Lionello Venturi, “La collection d’art moderne de M. Gualino,” Formes 7 (July 1930), p. 23, pl. 14.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 258, dated 1918.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 258, as Young girl with fringe, dated 1918.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 262, dated 1918.⁴
• This investigation records a certificate by Ceroni’s widow stating that Ceroni intended to include the work in a later publication; no such published number exists.

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, Sala XII degli Appels d’Italie, retrospective curated by Lionello Venturi, 1930, no. 6 (title as recorded in this investigation).
• Milan, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946, no. 14, dated 1918.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Italian Contemporary Art, 1950.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 60.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 30.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 39 (Russoli).

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Absent from Ceroni’s published catalogue.

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