Elvira, bust (loose shirt)
Oil on canvas?, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Elvira, loose shirt / Bust of Elvira nude / Bust of a young brunette.
- Date
- 1918? Several compilers dated the canvas 1919.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas? (as marked in this investigation).
- Dimensions
- 65.5 × 46.3 cm? D’Atri: 65.5 × 47 cm and 65 × 47 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right? (as marked in this investigation).
- Present location
- Unknown location.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 334 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 324 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 271 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 284 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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?
- Lunia Czechowska Collection, Paris.
- Tetzen-Lund Collection, Copenhagen?
- Besmard Collection, Bucharest?
- Bignou Collection, Paris.
- Alex Reid & Lefevre Ltd, London.
- McNeill Reid Collection, Glasgow or London? (1929?).
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, pp. 52–53.1
- Charles Douglas, Artist Quarter, London, Faber and Faber, 1941.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 334, dated 1919.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 271, dated 1918.3
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 324, dated 1918.4
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 301 in the bibliography line of this investigation (the table prints no. 284), dated 1919.5
Exhibitions
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 70? (this investigation, unconfirmed).
- Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 61? (this investigation notes possible confusion with the other Elvira nude).
- London, The Lefevre Gallery, The Tragic Painters, 1938, no. 4? (catalogue size 21½ × 14¾ in. = 53.3 × 37.4 cm, signed top left, dated 1917; identification unconfirmed).
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 70, as Elvire, 65.5 × 47 cm, dated 1919; provenance Czechowska > Tetzen-Lund > Besmard > Reid 1928.
A second D’Atri entry, no. 323, as Torse de fille brune (Elvira), 65 × 47 cm, dated 1919; provenance Czechowska > Bignou > Reid. This investigation treats the two cards as a repeated record of the same canvas.
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.
This investigation records that no good-quality colour reproduction was available.
The original 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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.