Portrait of a young woman (small format)
Oil on canvas, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Unknown model / Portrait of a young woman.
- Date
- 1918, unconfirmed.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 41.3 × 24.8 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top left.
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 232 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Roger Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
- Schick Collection.
- Knoedler Gallery, New York (by 1950).
- M. Guttman, French Art Gallery, New York.
- Schoneman Gallery, New York (by 1952).
- Private collection, New York (1952–89).
- Perls Galleries, New York (by 1990).
- Kouros Gallery, New York.
- Private collection?
- Wildenstein Institute, Paris, letter no. 000313-7161-402, 13 March 2000, stating that the painting would be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the painted and drawn work of Amedeo Modigliani by MR.
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.
- Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt, Augustin Levy and Salima Senot, Amedeo Modigliani: L’œil intérieur, Villeneuve d’Ascq, LaM, 2016.
Exhibitions
- Villeneuve d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.
- Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, Modigliani, 2016.
- Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Modigliani, 2016–17.
- London, Tate Modern, Modigliani, 2017–18.
Notes
Presence in the D’Atri papers is unconfirmed.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
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.
