Bust of a Woman (Buenos Aires)
Oil on canvas, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Bust of a Woman (Buenos Aires); Portrait of a Woman; Head of a Woman; Bust of a Woman.
- Date
- This investigation dates the work 1919 (unconfirmed). The museum does not publish a year.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas. The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes catalogues it as oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 61 × 46 cm, as published by the museum. Older catalogues print 60.5 × 46 cm.
- Signature
- Signed “M….” at top left. This investigation describes the inscription as almost unreadable and reproduces an enhanced photograph.
- Present location
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, inv. 9217. Bequest of Ayerza de González Garaño, 1990.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Not documented before Alfredo González Garaño Collection, Buenos Aires (by 1933).
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, inv. 9217 (bequest of María Teresa Ayerza de González Garaño, 1990).
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.
- The painting has been used on a stamp issued by the Argentine postal service (reproduced in this investigation).
Exhibitions
- Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Escuela Francesa siglos XIX–XX, 1933, no. 75.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation states that the museum was asked several times for information and did not reply. The museum website now lists the work as Figura de mujer, inv. 9217.
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.
