Woman against a blue ground

Identification

Published titles

English: Portrait of a woman / Woman, bust / Woman against a blue ground.

Date

1918 in Parisot.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

57 × 34.5 cm.

Signature

This investigation marks the work as unsigned?

Present location

Private collection, Japan.

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
2. Hanka Zborowska, Paris (by 1946).
3. Private collection, Japan.

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.

• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 8/1918.¹
• This investigation cites a Lanthemann/Parisot concordance as no. 254; the number is not independently checked against the 1970 Lanthemann volume here.

Exhibitions

• Tokyo, Art Gallery Sogo, Italian Art, 1988.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Parisot refers to a Pfannstiel entry; this investigation finds no matching Pfannstiel number and suggests a certificate rather than a catalogue number.

Absent from Ceroni and Patani.

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.