Young woman with bangs (Detroit)

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman with bangs / Bust of a brunette. French: Jeune femme à la frange.

Date

1918 in Lanthemann. The museum dates the work 1917–20.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

60.3 × 46.4 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Detroit Institute of Arts (inv. 26.16). City of Detroit purchase, 1926.

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. Detroit Institute of Arts (inv. 26.16), acquired 1926, City of Detroit purchase.

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.

• Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 12, no. 1 (1930), p. 9.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 259, as Jeune femme à la frange, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 17, as Portrait of a lady.
• San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, 1957, no. 1.
• Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959, no. 117.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 20.
• Tokyo, Seibu Gallery, 1968, no. 36.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Absent from Ceroni and Patani. Early museum accession (1926).

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.