Seated Woman with a Blue Blouse

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated Woman with Crossed Hands.
French: Seated Woman with a Blue Blouse; Young Woman in a Blue Blouse.

Date

Pfannstiel dates the work 1918. Ceroni, Lanthemann and Patani date it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Unsigned. This investigation notes that the painting may be unfinished.

Present location

Netter Collection, 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. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
3. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 47.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 283, as Young woman in blue blouse, dated 1918, Netter Collection, Paris.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 295, as Seated woman with blue blouse, dated 1919, 100 × 65 cm, private collection, Paris.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 386, as Seated woman with crossed hands, dated 1919.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Françoise Cachin, 1972, no. 295.⁵
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 216.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991 catalogue raisonné (entry not numbered in this investigation).⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 307, as Seated woman with blue blouse, dated 1919, 100 × 65 cm, private collection, Paris.⁸
• MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2012.⁹

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition, 1933, no. 54.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Amedeo Modigliani, 1934, no. 46.
• Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, La Collection Jonas Netter — Modigliani, Soutine et l’aventure de Montparnasse, 2012.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2013.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, Modigliani, Soutine and other legends of Montparnasse (the Netter Collection), curated by MR, 2017–18.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2019–20.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

The painting is unsigned. This investigation raises the possibility that it was left unfinished.

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.