Madame Amédée (woman with a cigarette)

Identification

Published titles

English: Madame Amédée / Woman with a cigarette / The smoker.

Date

1918. Lanthemann dates the canvas 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100.3 × 64.8 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., inv. 1963.10.172, as Madame Amédée (Woman with Cigarette), 1918. Chester Dale Collection (bequest 1963). The museum gives 100.3 × 64.8 cm, which matches the figure used here.

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. Kunding Collection, Geneva.
2. Falk Collection, Geneva.
3. Georges Moos, Geneva.
4. Étienne Bignou, Paris (acquired 1925).
5. Chester Dale, New York (acquired 3 May 1927).
6. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.

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.

• Maud Dale, 1929.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 39.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 248, as Woman with a cigarette, dated Nice 1918.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 408, as Mme Amédée (la femme à la cigarette), dated 1919.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 282, dated 1918.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 295, dated 1918.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 164.⁷
• National Gallery of Art collection catalogues, 1952, 1960, 1965, 1975 and 1985.

Exhibitions

• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 1.
• New York, Demotte, Inc., 1931, no. 21.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 46.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 38.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1943–52 (extended loan).
• Cleveland Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1952, no. 45.
• Washington, The Chester Dale Bequest, 1965.
• Washington, National Gallery of Art, Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1983.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 46, as Femme à la cigarette, dated 1918, Nice, 100 × 64 / 99 × 64 cm; provenance Falk > Bignou > Kunding > Chester Dale.

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