Girl in a sailor’s blouse

Identification

Published titles

English: Girl in a sailor’s blouse; Young girl with a sailor collar.
French: Le col marin.

Date

1918 (Metropolitan Museum; also Ceroni, Lanthemann, Patani and Parisot). Pfannstiel dates the canvas 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

65.4 × 46.4 cm (Metropolitan Museum, inv. 60.118). Decrooq, Parisot, Wayne and Pubhist publish 60.3 × 46.4 cm. This file follows the museum.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 60.118). Gift of Charles F. Iklé, 1960. The museum dates the canvas 1918.

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 (sold 1922).
2. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from Zborowski, 1922, stock no. 23.058; Pubhist dates the purchase 6 June 1922).
3. New Gallery, New York (Pubhist: sold by Bernheim-Jeune on 14 November 1922; this investigation had recorded an acquisition in 1923 for 5,000 FF).
4. Charles F. Iklé, New York, until 1960.
5. Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 60.118), gift of Charles F. Iklé, 1960.

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.

• Maud Dale, 1929, pl. 18.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 33, dated 1917.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 202, dated 1917.³
• Charles Sterling and Margaretta Salinger, Metropolitan catalogue, vol. 3, 1967.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 278, dated 1918.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 249.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 261.⁷
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 33/1918.⁸
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, no. 27.⁹
• Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, no. 27.

Exhibitions

• New York, New Gallery, 1923.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, summer loan, 1957.
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1970–71, no. 64.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 26, dated 1917.
• Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum, 1975, no. 77.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 62.
• Barcelona and Madrid, 1983, no. 32 (Parisot).
• Tokyo and Nagoya, 1985, no. 103.
• Yokohama Museum of Art, 1989, no. 165.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 95.
• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, 1992–93, no. 32 (MR).
• Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 1994, no. 14.
• Lugano, 1999, no. 45.
• Buffalo, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 2002–03, no. 27.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 314, as Le col marin, dated 1917, 65 × 46 cm, Bernheim 1929.

Sterling and Salinger identify the sitter with Marie Feret, the Albright-Knox servant girl (1918-w-115). Lowery Sims later described the collar as closer to lace than to a sailor collar.

Holes are visible at the four corners.

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