Seated Girl in a Blue Dress

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated Girl in a Blue Dress; Portrait of a Woman.

Date

Lanthemann dates the work 1918. This investigation allows 1918–1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

Lanthemann gives format 25M, that is 81 × 54 cm.

Signature

Not recorded.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Not documented.
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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 326, as Seated Girl in a Blue Dress, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation states that the painting has never been seen in person or in a colour reproduction.

The same child appears in several other portraits grouped in this investigation.

This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person and, in several cases, not even in a reliable colour reproduction.

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.