Jeanne Hébuterne with Bare Shoulders

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne with Bare Shoulders, Jeanne Hébuterne.
French: Buste de femme aux épaules nues.

Date

1919, unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

66 × 47 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. Galerie B. de Volman, Paris, 8 rue de La Glacière.
   (Information source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
2. Roger Dutilleul, Paris, 1922–1940? -acquired from the above in 1922 also with Tête de Femme & Portrait de Zborovski.
   (Information source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
3. Galerie de France (Mr Martin), Paris. Acquired from the above in 1942, sold by Roger Dutilleul in exchange of a Picasso “head” formerly in the Paul Eluard collection.
   (Information source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
4. Private collection, Neuchâtel, (acquired from the above in 1942).
   Then by descent in 1987.
   (Information source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
5. ?
6. D.R. collection, location unknown.

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.

• Dorette Berthoud, La Peinture Française d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, les éditions d’art et d’histoire, 1937, p.95, illustrated Pl XXIV (photo Marc Vaux)
  ( Reported in the provenance documentation source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link; the original exhibition/publication catalogue has not yet been independently inspected.)
  
• Michel Georges-Michel, Les Montparnos, Paris, éditions del Duca, 1957, illustrated pl. II (photo Marc Vaux).
  ( Reported in the provenance documentation source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link; the original exhibition/publication catalogue has been contrasted and inspected and includes the painting.)
  
• Francis Berthier, Roger Dutilleul et l’institution collection privée d’avant-garde, in catalogue Exposition Modigliani au Japon 1992-1993,Ed Maïnichi, Tokyo, p.175.
  ( Reported in the provenance documentation source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link; the original exhibition/publication catalogue has not yet been independently inspected.)
• MR, Le silence éternel, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008, cover and pp. 142–143.¹
• Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.

Exhibitions

• London, The Independent Gallery (Percy Moore Turner), 1928, Paintings and Drawings by Contemporary Artists and Fine Examples of Earlier Periods.
  ( Exhibition inclusion of the present work is reported in the provenance documentation; the original exhibition catalogue has not yet been independently inspected. - Source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
• Paris, La Gazette des beaux Arts, Dec 1935-Jan 1936, n°74 (collection Mr Roger Dutilleul).
  (Information source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link.)
  This ref. appears to be mixing two different things:
  1.- the Gazette des Beaux-Arts periodical;
  2.-the catalogue of the exhibition Peintres instinctifs.
  The exhibition was: Les étapes de l'art contemporain. VI — Peintres instinctifs, naissance de l'expressionnisme. Paris, December 1935–January 1936 - Raymond Cogniat (catalogue), with a preface by André Salmon,
  Published by Les expositions de “Beaux-Arts” et de “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, Paris, 1935.
  The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) has a formal catalogue record for it:
  - series: Les expositions de “Beaux-Arts” et de “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”.
  - Series number 15.
  - BnF identifier FRBNF33384067.
  ( Reported in the provenance documentation source: Selling file from Duhamel Art, Paris link; the original exhibition/publication catalogue has not yet been independently inspected.)
  
  
• Tokyo, The National Art Center, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, curated by MR, no. 59.
• Osaka, The National Museum of Art, same exhibition, 2008, no. 59.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, 2008, curated by MR.

Notes

Duhamel Art file mentions: "With a letter from the Wildenstein Institute of inclusion to the Catalogue Critique of Amedeo Modigliani being prepared by MR (ref: 010607/8063/2259)."

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation reproduces several close details (ear or earring, chair back, breast, four-fingered hand) without a separate technical report.

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.