Woman with a pendant

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with a pendant; Woman with a necklace; The coffee-concert singer; Bust of a woman with a necklace.

Date

1918, unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

61.6 × 38.7 cm. Patani: 46.2 × 38.5 cm. Ceroni: 61 × 58 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Bernheim-Jeune Collection, Paris (by 1929).
3. Duveen Collection, London (by 1933).
4. Private collection, United States?
5. Patani records a different chain: Georges Chéron, Paris; private collection, Paris; private collection, London.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 320, dated 1917–18, as Woman’s face.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 302, dated 1918.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 243, dated 1918.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 250, dated 1918.⁴
• MR, Milan 2003, pp. 280–281.
• Simonetta Fraquelli, Royal Academy, 2006, no. 45.⁵

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 79.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 68.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, 1955.
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 29.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 39, as Portrait of a young girl.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, 2003, no. 51.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 45.
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum, Meeting Modigliani, 2007.
• Tokyo / Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 45, as Bust of a woman or the coffee-concert singer.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 79, as Tête de femme, dated 1917–18, Duveen, London, 1933. The same number is also attached to w-38 in this investigation.

This investigation records holes at three corners.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation notes a resemblance to The café singer dated 1917 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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