Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with red hair; Mademoiselle P. de C; Blond woman leaning.

Date

1918 in Ceroni. The National Gallery of Art dates the canvas 1917. Pfannstiel and Dale dated it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92.1 × 60.7 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, inv. 1963.10.176. Chester Dale Collection, bequest 1963. The museum dates the canvas 1917 and records 92.1 × 60.7 cm, oil on canvas, signed upper right.

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. Libaud Collection, Paris.
2. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
3. Bing et Cie, Paris (by 1925).
4. Jacques Netter, Paris (National Gallery of Art provenance; this investigation had recorded Jonas Netter).
5. Étienne Bignou, Paris.
6. Kraushaar Galleries, Paris.
7. Chester Dale Collection, New York, acquired 5 March 1928.
8. National Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 1963.10.176, Chester Dale bequest, 1963.

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.

• Waldemar George, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1925, p. 387.
• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 5.¹
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte moderna italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1927, pl. 4.
• Maud Dale, 1929, pl. 40, dated 1917.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 28.³
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 172, dated 1917.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 210.⁵
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 247.⁶
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 232.⁷
• John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, rev. ed., New York, 1984, no. 903.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 14/1918.⁸
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 243, dated 1918.⁹
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bing et Cie, Modigliani, 1925, no. 27, as Femme blonde accoudée.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Group of Twentieth Century Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1931, no. 18, as Woman in Black.
• New York, Demotte, Amedeo Modigliani, 1931, no. 18.
• New York, Museum of French Art, Portraits of Women, 1931, no. 28, as Portrait, Mlle P. de C.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 77.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 67.
• Chicago, Art Institute, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943–52 (extended loan).
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, same collection, 1952, no. 44.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, The Chester Dale Bequest, 1965.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1983–84.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 77, as Femme aux cheveux roux (femme blonde accoudée), 92 × 60.5 cm, dated 1917; provenance Zborowski > Bing > Netter 1931 > Bignou > Dale 1933.

This investigation records related portraits of the same sitter.

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