Jeanne Hébuterne Seated (sketch)

Oil on cardboard, 1919?

Date1919?
MediumOil on cardboard
Sizeunrecorded
CollectionPrivate collection?
SignatureTop right
Investigation1919-w-34

Identification

Published titles
English: Jeanne Hébuterne Seated (sketch); Jeanne Hébuterne Seated in a White Shirt.
Date
1919, unconfirmed. The verso inscription dates the sketch 1919.
Medium
Oil on cardboard.
Dimensions
Not recorded in this investigation.
Signature
Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location
Private collection?
Verso
Inscription: « Caro amico Durini, questo bozzetto è stato dipinto da Amedeo Modigliani nel 1919 », signed Zborowski.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur PfannstielNO
Joseph LanthemannNO
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne ModiglianiNO
Christian Parisot?
Osvaldo PataniNO
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

  1. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
  2. Private collection?

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

A Venice court declared the sketch an original work by Modigliani. This investigation asks whether it is a study for a larger seated Jeanne Hébuterne and notes a comparison with radiographs of related compositions.

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

Jeanne Hébuterne sketch
The sketch. Image from this investigation.
Sketch compared
The sketch beside a related larger composition. Image from this investigation.
Related seated Jeanne Hébuterne
Related composition. Image from this investigation.
Related radiograph
Radiograph of a related composition, reproduced in this investigation.