Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne
Oil on canvas?, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne / Hébuterne head.
- Date
- 1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni, Patani and MR.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, unconfirmed in this investigation.
- Dimensions
- 55 × 39 cm. Ceroni and Patani give 55 × 38 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection? Christie’s, London, 21 June 2005, lot 8; later recorded with Art & Fragrances S.A., Cham, Switzerland.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | ? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 374 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 330 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 342 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Christie’s, London, sale 7058, 21 June 2005, lot 8 (this investigation records the lot as either unsold or sold for GBP 2,900,000).
- Art & Fragrances S.A., Cham, 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.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 374, dated 1919.1
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 330, as Hébuterne head.2
- Carol Mann, 1980, p. 195.3
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 342.4
- Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 181.5
- Simonetta Fraquelli, Royal Academy 2006, no. 41.6
- MR, Le Silence éternel, 2008, p. 167.7
Exhibitions
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 41.
- Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Meeting Modigliani, 2007?
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers?
Holes are visible at the four corners of the support.
After cleaning, passages that had appeared green read as blue once a yellowed surface layer was removed.
This investigation compares the dress and pose with the seated-in-bed portrait.
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.
Footnotes
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920: itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, Paris, ACR, 1996.
- Simonetta Fraquelli et al., Modigliani and His Models, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.
- MR, Le Silence éternel: Modigliani–Hébuterne 1916–1919, Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008.