Identification

Published titles

English: Mademoiselle Brunet.
French: Femme rousse; Buste de jeune fille.

Date

1918 in Pfannstiel and Lanthemann. De Hauke 1929 dated the canvas Paris, September 1919. D’Atri dates it September 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55.8 × 39.3 cm, unconfirmed (D’Atri: 55.5 × 39.5 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Deaccessioned from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1987.

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. Lepoutre Collection, Paris (until 1928).
2. Libaude Collection, Paris (1928–29).
3. Bignou Collection, Paris (by 1929).
4. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (by 1929).
5. De Hauke & Co., New York (stock no. 3309; cost GBP 345, sold GBP 480).
6. Philadelphia Museum of Art (later deaccessioned, 1987).
7. Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 1987.
8. Private collection?

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. 47.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 285, as Femme rousse (Mlle Brunet), Bignou Collection.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 256, located at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.³

Exhibitions

• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1929, no. 25.
• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 37, as Mademoiselle Brunet, dated Paris, September 1919.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, 1929.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 155, as Mademoiselle Brunet (Femme rousse), 55.5 × 39.5 cm, Paris, September 1919; provenance Lepoutre 1928 > Libaude 1929 > Bignou 1929.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.