Young woman with a bun

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman with a bun; Bust of a young woman.
French: Jeune femme au chignon.

Date

1918 in Lanthemann.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Not securely recorded. Lanthemann gives format 20P (about 73 × 54 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art? This investigation marks the location unconfirmed. If correct, the work would have entered the collection in the 1970s.

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. No published chain is recorded in this investigation.
2. A possible later location: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (unconfirmed).

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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 268, as Jeune femme au chignon (en buste), dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Absent from Ceroni and Patani.

A colour photograph published in this investigation is cropped; identity with the Lanthemann entry is not independently confirmed here.

Published documentation for this work is limited. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where they are recorded in this investigation.

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