Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with black eyes.

Date

1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas? This investigation notes that the borders and brushwork resemble cardboard.

Dimensions

61 × 50 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Last named public sale: Est-Ouest Auctions, Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 598, sold USD 1,754,300.

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. Private collection.
2. Est-Ouest Auctions, Hong Kong, 26 May 2013, lot 598, sold USD 1,754,300.
3. 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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 270, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• Tokyo, The National Art Center, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 44, curated by MR.
• Osaka, The National Museum of Art, same exhibition, 2008, no. 44.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers. The canvas is absent from Ceroni and Patani.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

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