Bust of a young woman (Buenos Aires)
Oil on canvas, 1917–20?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Bust of a young woman (Buenos Aires); Bust of a young woman; Woman, bust.
- Date
- 1918 in this investigation (unconfirmed). The museum dates the work 1917–20.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (unconfirmed; not rechecked against a current museum record).
- Dimensions
- 73 × 50 cm (unconfirmed).
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (inv. 2701).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Atilio Larco Collection, Buenos Aires (by 1933).
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (inv. 2701).
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.
- No book-length catalogue raisonné entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Escuela francesa, siglos XIX–XX, 1933, no. 76.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers.
The work is absent from Pfannstiel, Lanthemann, Ceroni and Patani.
This investigation records unanswered requests to the museum for a file.
Published documentation for this work is limited. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where they are recorded in this investigation.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
