Identification

Published titles

English: The beautiful Spaniard / Madame Modot / Young woman in a yellow dress.

Date

Painted in Nice, October 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 59.5 cm, unconfirmed (Patani, Ceroni and Pfannstiel: 92 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right; additional text is unreadable and covered with paint.

Present location

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Villa Cerruti, Turin; Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte.

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. Amedeo Modigliani, October 1918.
2. Léopold Zborowski, Paris (end of 1918).
3. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired 6 June 1922).
4. Mme Guérin Collection, Paris (acquired 9 April 1923).
5. Netter Collection, Paris (by 1929).
6. Monteux Collection, Paris?
7. Bing et Cie, Paris (by 1956).
8. Private collection, Paris?
9. Robert von Hirsch Collection, Basel.
10. Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1978, lot 743, estimate USD 305,085.
11. Francesco Federico Cerruti.
12. Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte / Castello di Rivoli, Turin.

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. 47.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 284, as Young woman in a yellow dress (the beautiful Spaniard), dated end of 1918–1919.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 203.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 335, painted in Nice, end of 1918–1919.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 283.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 296, dated end of 1918.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 32/1918.⁷
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Lugano 1999, no. 60.
• Guy-Patrice Dauberville, 2015.⁸
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate Modern, 2017, p. 95.⁹

Exhibitions

• Venice Biennale, Venturi retrospective, 1930, no. 29 (photo library no. 306).
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani, curated by Arthur Pfannstiel, 1930, no. 141.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 32.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 24.
• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, 1992–93, no. 39.
• Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 1994, no. 12.
• Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, 1995.
• Lugano, 1999, no. 60.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 64.
• Padua, Palazzo Zabarella, 2010–11.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2013.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 32, as Jeune fille à la robe jaune, 92 × 65 cm, dated 1917–18, Paris; provenance Bernheim-Jeune > Netter in 1929.

The sitter is identified as the wife of Gaston Modot, who was himself painted twice by Modigliani.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas.

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