Woman with a white collar (La frange)

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with a white collar / Young woman against a blue ground. French: La frange.

Date

1918, unconfirmed. Pfannstiel dates the canvas 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

63 × 50 cm.

Signature

Recorded as unsigned, unconfirmed.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Private collection, Paris.

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. 32.¹
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1935-XIV, no. 24, as La frange, Paul Guillaume Collection.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 193, as Young woman against a blue ground, dated 1917.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 262, as Woman with a white collar, dated 1918.³

Exhibitions

• New York, Acquavella Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani: loan exhibition, 1971, no. 36, lent anonymously, dated 1918.

Notes

Not recorded in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation compares the composition with another portrait presented by MR and dated 1919.

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.