Jeanne Hébuterne seated, arm on the chair

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne seated / Jeanne Hébuterne seated with arm on the back of the chair.

Date

1919 in Ceroni and Patani. MR dates the canvas 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 54 cm. Ceroni, Patani and MR give 92 × 60 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Last dealer citation: Galerie Malingue, Paris.

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. Private collection, Paris.
3. Galerie Malingue, Paris.
4. 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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 303, size given as 92 × 60 cm.¹
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 316, same size as Ceroni.²
• MR, Le Silence éternel, 2008, p. 168, dated 1918, size 92 × 60 cm.³

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 95 (identification unconfirmed in this investigation).

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

After cleaning, passages that had appeared green read as blue once a yellowed surface layer was removed.

This investigation compares the dress with other Hébuterne portraits dated 1918 and 1919.

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.