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| Pfannstiel | Lanthemann | Ceroni | J. Modigliani | Parisot | Patani | Restellini | Wayne |
| Nº 299 / 252 | Nº 332 | Nº 223 | YES | 6/1918 | Nº 233 | YES | ? |
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Leopold Zborowski., Paris
Netter Collection, Paris
Bernheim Jeune, Paris
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R. Gualino Collection, Torino (in 1930)
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? Unknown owner ( M. Léopold Dreyfus)?
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Berlin National Gallery 1939?
Sale: Galerie Fischer, Luzern - 30 / June / 1939 - Lot 98 (the work is illustrated in the catalogue)
- Sold by Berlin, National Gallery (during the worst years of the II WW)
Name of the auction: Auction of paintings and sculptures by modern masters from German museums
Text in the auction catalogue:
Lot 98. Portrait of a lady.
Slender girl's head on a slender neck with brown parted hair in face against gray-blue background, right light brown stripe.
Signed upper right: Modigliani.
Oil on canvas, 47 x 30 cm
See Fig. P. 53
Berlin, National Gallery
Exhibition: Esposizione Internazionale della Città di Venezia 1930.
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Private Collection, Italy
Lehr Collection, Bern (reg. in 1955 as young girl 1918)
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Pfannstiel gives two provenances (he repeats this paintings in his records and give it two numbers changing the sizes):
Nº 252 = Zborowski > Netter > Gualino > Private Collection Italy
Nº 299 = Zborowski > Netter > Bernheim Jeune > Gualino > Private Collection Italy
(nº 299 is illustrated so there is no place for mistake, he even uses the same provenance for nº 339)
Patani gives this provenance:
Zborowski > Netter > Bernheim Jeune > Gualino > Torino Private Collection
Parisot gives this provenance:
Private Collection Bern
I have no idea why all the experts do not mention the Luzern auction and a property of German museums?
In process
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Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 49
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1950, pl. 29
Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani. Braun, Paris, 1951, pl. 31
Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Braun, Paris, 1954, pl. 31
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 299 - title young girl (Jeanne Hébuterne) 1918 duplicated with nº 252 as young girl
NOTE:
Pfannstiel who was a close collaborator, friend and purveyor of the Nazi looting forces mixed the provenance of this work in his catalogue duplicating the work with
nº 299 and nº 252 and to complete the mess used the provenance of nº 339 Hanka portrait to make it harder to trace.
(does this means I say it's a war crime provenance, NO IDEA, that should be reviewed with more investigations)
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Salmon, La vie passionnée de Modigliani, Vervier, Paris, 1957, p. 192
Salmon, Modigliani a memoir, Putnam's sons, New York, 1957
Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 88
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - nº 87
Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Exhib. catalogue Palazzo Reale, Edizioni dell'ente manifestazioni Milanesi, Milano, 1958, pl. 41
Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958 - nº 47
Modigliani J. , Modigliani senza leggenda, Vallecchi Editore, Firenze, 1958
Modigliani J. , Modigliani sans légende, Gruend, Paris, 1961
Gindertael, Shop libre diffusion, 1967, p. 52, pl. 26
Geza, Modigliani, Budapest, Corvina Kiadó, 1969 - nº 41
Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969
Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - nº 54
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 332 - title Jeanne Hébuterne or la Zborowska - dated 1918
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 238 - dated 1918 - nº 223 - title Jeanne Hébuterne looking front - dated 1918
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 238 - dated 1918 - nº 223 - dated 1918
Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1977, p. 85
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 170 - nº 124
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 142
Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 156
Orion Press, Tokyo, 1989 - nº 63
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 6 /1918 as Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 233 - dated 1918 - as Head of Jeanne Hébuterne, frontal
McHugh, Faces, Thomson Learning, New York, p. 19, p. 17
Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne,1996, 2000, p. 77
Decrooq-Restellini, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, mention in p. 336
Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 2006, p. 109 - nº 26 - dated 1917-18 - as Head of Jeanne Hébuterne
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Restellini, Le silence éternel, Pinacotheque de Paris, 2008, p. 145
Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 180
Bezur, Campos, Centeno, Duvernois, Josenhans, Londero, Gonçalves, Rizzuto, Schwarz, The Modigliani Technical Research Styudy, Modigliani’s late portraits, The burlington Magazine, London, May 2018, p. 401 -404
In process
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Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930 - nº 4
Paris, Modigliani, Galerie de France, 1945-46 - nº 16 (not sure, it could be any of the other 2 options)
Milano, ?, 1946
Bern, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, Kunsthalle, 1955 - nº 27
Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 69 as Jeune fille
Marseille, Modigliani, Musée Cantini, 1958 - nº 24
Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - nº 41 with the next text:
"Usually taken as portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne, the painting shows the daughter of the maid at the building of Modigliani"
Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - nº 39
London, Modigliani and his models, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006 - nº 26
Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - nº 94
London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
In process
Probably Nº 90 in D' Atri papers - Jeune Fille - dated 1919 - Rothlin Collection, Basel 1934
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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners
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Detail of signature in visible normal light:
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The painting framed at Tate Gallery Exhibit in 2017:
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There are 3 paintings very similar in size and composition
And there is another painting formerly at the Knoedler Gallery art collection and actually at unknown location that seems to be the same painting in a larger scale:
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The painting was fully analyzed during the The Modigliani Technical Research Study, Modigliani’s late portraits, The Burlington Magazine, London, May 2018 with the
companion of the other similar composition and the results showed various corrections, the holes in the canvas, the paining method and the presence of pigments concordant
with the known Modigliani Palette.
In resume the main identified colors/pigments in both portraits are:
1.- Lead White
2.- Zinc white
3.- Chrome orange
4.- Ocher (Brown Ocher / Yellow Ocher)
5.- Vermilion
6.- Bone black
7.- Cadmium yellow
8.- Calcite
This does not means that a painting has to present the 8/10 pigments, it was his palette at that time in 1918.
(the Zinc white for instance is only found in the preparation layer and the Ochres also the Calcite in the support)
General Museum technical studies have reached the conclusion that is a very short palette, a simple range made with pre industrial oils (non artisan, but small scale industrial oils).