Rachel Osterlind

Identification

Published titles

English: Rachel Osterlind / Young girl / Portrait of a young girl.

Date

1919 in Jeanne Modigliani, Lanthemann, Ceroni and Patani. Galerie Charpentier 1958 dated the work 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed in this investigation.

Dimensions

46.7 × 33.5 cm, unconfirmed.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Rachel Osterlind, Cagnes, 1919 (sitter).
2. J. Hessel Collection, Paris (1925).
3. Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris.
4. Private collection, Paris.

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, 1956, no. 348, as Portrait of a young girl, dated 1919, pl. 40.¹
• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, pl. 61, as Rachel Osterlind, dated 1919.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 352, as Rachel Osterlind, Cagnes, dated 1919.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 284.⁴
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 76.
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 297.⁵
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate 2017, p. 166.⁶

Exhibitions

• Tokyo, 1929.
• Nagasaki, 1929.
• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim (Bernheim-Jeune), Modigliani retrospective, 1931.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 80, dated 1918.
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 47.
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963, no. 29.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 76.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

A photograph of the sitter standing with the painting is reproduced in this investigation.

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.