Woman in black (almond-shaped eyes)
Oil on canvas, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Woman in black / Elvira Ventre / Young girl with almond-shaped eyes.
- Date
- 1918, unconfirmed.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 73 × 54 cm, unconfirmed (Parisot: 72 × 53 cm).
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top left.
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 269 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Private collection, Paris or the United Kingdom?
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.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 269, as Young girl with almond-shaped eyes, dated 1918.1
- Christian Parisot, 1992, p. 159, dated 1918, 72 × 53 cm.2
- Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 146.3
- Christian Parisot, 2006, p. 281.4
Exhibitions
- Bari, Castello Svevo, A. Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne e gli artisti di Montmartre e Montparnasse, curated by Christian Parisot, 2003.
- Caserta, Belvedere Reale di San Leucio, same exhibition, 2003.
- Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani and his circle, curated by Christian Parisot and Beatrice Hsieh, 2011?
Notes
Not recorded in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation records changes to the surface after cleaning or restoration.
The 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.
Footnotes
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992.
- Christian Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920: itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, Paris, ACR, 1996.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete / Musée du Montparnasse, 2006.