Little girl in blue

Identification

Published titles

English: Little girl in blue; Girl in blue with a red ribbon; Girl standing.

Date

1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

116 × 73 cm, unconfirmed. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958: 117 × 72.5 cm.

Signature

Signed at top right. This investigation records that the first stroke of the m is missing, so that the name reads rodigliani in both visible light and infrared.

Present location

Private collection? The canvas is recorded with the Jonas Netter Collection in the published exhibition history.

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. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris.

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.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 15.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 47.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 286, dated 1918, as Girl in blue, standing, Netter Collection.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 98.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 301, dated 1918, as Girl standing.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 245.⁶
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 60.
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 257, dated 1918.⁷
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 18/1918.⁸

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, 1930, no. 10.
• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, 1931, no. 29, dated 1919.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 55.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 47.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 62, 117 × 72.5 cm.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 32.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 60.
• Paris, Pinacothèque, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, same exhibition, 2013.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, the Netter Collection, 2017–18.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, same collection, 2019–20.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 55, as Petite fille debout en robe bleu, oil on canvas; the paper gives 54.5 × 45.5 cm and a Netter provenance marked with question marks. The published size of the standing canvas is much larger.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The incomplete first letter of the signature is recorded in visible light and in infrared, as published 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.