Jeanne Hébuterne with a Hat

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne with a Hat; Madame Zborowski.

Date

1919. Pfannstiel places it at the end of 1918 or the beginning of 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 54 cm. Lanthemann, Ceroni, Patani and Parisot give 93 × 53 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? This investigation last records a Swiss collection after the 2013 sale.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Bois Collection, Paris.
3. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, acquired 17 December 1920, no. 22447.
4. Paul Guillaume, Paris, acquired 27 May 1924 for 3,136 francs.
5. Galerie Bignou, Paris.
6. H. Belien Collection, Brussels.
7. M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
8. Private collection, United States, acquired 1955.
9. Sotheby’s, New York, 13 May 1997, lot 36.
10. Private collection, United States.
11. Sotheby’s, London, 19 June 2006, lot 15, sold £14,600,000.
12. Private collection, New York.
13. Christie’s, London, 6 February 2013, sale 1102, lot 16, estimate £16,000,000–22,000,000, sold £26,921,250.
14. Kolidoro Collection, Switzerland?

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. 38.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 342, as Mme Hébuterne (with a hat).²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 340, dated 1919.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 304.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 28/1919.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 315.⁶
• MR, Le silence éternel, 2008, pp. 148–149.⁷
• Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, no. 7.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Modigliani, 1922, no. 9, as Hébuterne.
• Venice, XIII Biennale, Sala XII, 1922, no. 3 (163667).
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Portraits de femmes et d’enfants, 1936, no. 20, incorrectly as Madame Zborowski.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art italien contemporain, 1950, no. 70.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, La femme dans l’art français, 1953, no. 92.
• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, same exhibition, 1953, no. 92.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani and the School of Paris, 2013, no. 23.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

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