Dédie Hayden, profile view

Identification

Published titles

English: Dédie, profile view / Odette Hayden / Dédie Hayden / Seated woman / Dédie.

Date

1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, inv. AM 3974 P. Gift of M. and Mme André Lefèvre, 1952. The museum records oil on canvas, 92 × 60 cm, dated [1918], signed upper left.

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. André Lefèvre Collection, Paris.
2. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, inv. AM 3974 P, gift of M. and Mme André Lefèvre, 1952.

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.

• Bernard Dorival, “La donation A. Lefèvre au Musée d’Art Moderne,” Revue du Louvre, 1964, p. 26.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 214.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 236 (this investigation also prints no. 259 against this title).²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 282.³
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, exhibition catalogue, 1981, no. 97, p. 168, dated 1918.
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 203.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 248, dated 1918.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 30/1918.⁶
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 112, no. 35, dated circa 1918.⁷
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, 1964, no. 23.
• Washington, 1968.
• Boston, 1968.
• Leningrad, no. 26.
• Moscow, 1979, no. 26.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 97.
• Tokyo / Nagoya, 1985, no. 97.
• Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Arte Italiana, 1989.
• Buffalo / Fort Worth / Los Angeles, 2002–03, no. 35.
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum, 2007.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2008.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 98.
• Moscow, Pushkin Museum, The School of Paris, 2011.
• Pisa, BLU Palazzo d’arte e cultura, 2014–15.
• Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015.
• Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Matisse in His Time, 2016.

Notes

This investigation asks whether the canvas could be Pfannstiel no. 212 (presumed catalogue p. 35, 92 × 53 cm, undated, provenance Zborowski–Bernheim-Jeune).

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records holes in two corners.

This investigation records a related frontal portrait of the same sitter, present location unknown (this investigation’s 1918-w-8).

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