Jeanne Hébuterne with Loose Hair

Oil on canvas, 1919

Date1919

MediumOil on canvas

Size100.3 × 65.4 cm

CollectionBarnes Foundation

SignatureTop right

Investigation1919-w-22

Identification

Published titles: English: Jeanne Hébuterne / Woman, the Left Arm behind the Head / Jeanne Hébuterne with Loose Hair.
Date: 1919 in the principal catalogues.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 100.3 × 65.4 cm (museum).
Signature: Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF285).

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	YES
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 358
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 307
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	no. 27/1919
Osvaldo Patani	no. 319
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.
Georges Chéron, Paris?
Private collection, France?
Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF285).

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. 12.¹
Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 358, as Woman, the left arm behind the head, dated 1919.²
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 307, as Jeanne Hébuterne with loose hair, dated 1919.³
Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 319.⁴
Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 27/1919.⁵
Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, New York, Knopf, 1993, pp. 222–223.
Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy and Derek Gillman, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, New York, Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 256–257, 260, 266.

Exhibitions

This investigation states that the painting has not left the Barnes Foundation since it was acquired.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

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.

Jeanne Hébuterne with loose hair — The painting. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, from this investigation.

Signature at top right. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Ear — Drawn and coloured ear. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

In situ at the Barnes — The painting in its Barnes ensemble. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Footnotes

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.