Jeanne Hébuterne seated in profile, black and red dress

Oil on canvas, 1918?

Date1918?

MediumOil on canvas

Size100 × 65 cm?

CollectionNetter Collection, Paris?

SignatureTop right

Investigation1918-w-45

Identification

Published titles: English: Jeanne Hébuterne seated in profile, black and red dress; Jeanne Hébuterne seated in profile in a black and red dress; Jeanne Hébuterne au henné.
French: La femme au hénin.
Date: 1918, unconfirmed. Lanthemann dates the canvas 1919.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 100 × 65 cm, unconfirmed. D’Atri papers: 92 × 60 cm.
Signature: Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location: Netter Collection, Paris?

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	no. 148 (number recorded as incorrect)
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 359
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 260
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	42/1918 (mixed numbering)
Osvaldo Patani	no. 276
Modigliani Project	?
MR	YES
Modigliani Initiative	?

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

Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
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.

Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 24.¹
Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 148; this investigation records the size and provenance as mixed with the Barnes canvas.²
Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958, pl. 13.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 260, dated 1918.³
Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 359 (this investigation also prints no. 360), dated 1919.⁴
Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 42/1918; this investigation records a mix of exhibitions and owners with the related white-dress canvas.⁵
Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 276, dated 1918.⁶
MR, Le silence éternel, 2008, p. 173.⁷
MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012.⁸

Exhibitions

Venice, Biennale, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, curated by Lionello Venturi, 1930, no. 11.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 83.
Paris, Pinacothèque, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, same exhibition, 2013.
St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, Modigliani, Soutine and other legends of Montparnasse (the Netter Collection), curated by MR, 2017–18.
Livorno, Museo della Città, same collection, 2019–20.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 223, as Portrait de Mme Hébuterne sur un fauteuil, 92 × 60 cm; provenance Zborowski.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records a closely related seated profile in a white dress (Barnes Foundation, this series w-44). Parisot no. 42/1918 is recorded as mixing the two canvases.

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

Reproduction published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.

Ear — Drawn ear painted over the colour.

Venice Biennale, 1930 — The painting at the 1930 Venice retrospective.

Framed at the Fabergé Museum, 2017–18 — The painting framed at St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, 2017–18.

Comparison with the white-dress canvas — The two related seated profiles superimposed, as published in this investigation.

Footnotes

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
MR, Le silence éternel, Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008.
MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2012.