The Swedish Girl

Identification

Published titles

English: The Swedish Girl; Girl with Red Hair; Portrait of a Woman.
French: La belle Suédoise; La Czechowska.

Date

Lanthemann dates the work 1919. This investigation leaves the year unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Lanthemann records an 8P format, 46 × 33 cm. The 1958 Marseille catalogue gives 46 × 29.5 cm; the 1958 Milan catalogue gives 46 × 38 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Collection unknown.

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. Alphonse Bellier Collection, Paris.
2. Thereafter unrecorded.

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.

• Claude Roy, 1958, p. 100.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 353, dated 1919, as Portrait de femme (Czechowska?) dit la belle Suédoise.²

Exhibitions

• Marseille, Musée Cantini, Modigliani, 1958, no. 26, size given as 46 × 29.5 cm. This investigation notes a printing error: the illustration printed under no. 26 is that of no. 28.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, curated by Franco Russoli, 1958, no. 44, size given as 46 × 38 cm, with a note relating the design to Pfannstiel 1929, p. 64.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records that a private expertise attributed to MR was received by email from an unidentified sender. The document has not been independently verified.

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.