Jeanne Hébuterne with a yellow sweater

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne with a yellow sweater; Jeanne Hébuterne; Portrait of Mme Hébuterne.

Date

1918, unconfirmed. The Guggenheim dates the canvas 1918–1919 and gives 39 3/8 × 25 1/2 in. (100 × 64.8 cm). Lanthemann dates it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100 × 64.8 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, inv. 37.533. Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, Gift of Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1937.

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. Henry Bing Collection, Paris.
3. Félix Fénéon Collection, Paris.
4. Private collection, Tokyo? (Patani; this investigation records this transfer as uncertain).
5. Solomon R. Guggenheim, gift to the museum, 1937.
6. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, inv. 37.533.

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.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Éditions des Chroniques du jour, Paris, 1928, pl. 5.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 43.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 268, as Portrait of Mme Hébuterne, dated 1918.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 151.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 220, dated 1918, as Jeanne Hébuterne with yellow sweater.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 389, dated 1919.⁵
• Angelica Zander Rudenstine, 1976, no. 189.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 4/1918.⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 229, dated 1918.⁸
• Mason Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2017.⁹

Exhibitions

• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Italienische Maler, 1927, no. 109.
• Charleston, Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings, 1936, no. 119.
• Philadelphia Art Alliance, same collection, 1937, no. 184.
• New York, Guggenheim Museum, Art of Tomorrow, 1939, no. 533.
• Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Modigliani, 1954, no. 24.
• Rome, Capolavori del Museo Guggenheim di New York, 1957, no. 109.
• London, Tate Gallery, 75 Paintings of the Guggenheim Museum, 1957, no. 52.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 38.
• Los Angeles County Museum, same exhibition, 1961, no. 38.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani, 1971, no. 47 (dated 1919).
• New York, Guggenheim Museum, Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, 2017.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani Unmasked, 2018.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 218, as Mme Hébuterne, dated 1918, 100 × 65 cm; provenance Bing–Fénéon, Paris.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas. This investigation records the holes as restored and covered.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation notes a related seated portrait and a related head, both dated 1919 in the published catalogues, that show the same sweater.

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