Woman with a Blue Ribbon

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with a Blue Ribbon; Portrait of a Young Woman; Head of a Woman; Bust of a Woman.
Italian: La donna dal nastro azzurro.

Date

This investigation dates the work 1919 (unconfirmed).

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

61 × 38 cm (unconfirmed).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top 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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
2. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired 31 January 1921, inv. 22487).
3. Paul Guillaume, Paris (reacquired 27 May 1924).
4. Present location unknown.

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.

• Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, pp. 68–69.¹

Exhibitions

• Venice, XIII Biennale, Modigliani retrospective, 1922, no. 7, as La donna dal nastro azzurro (no. 163673).

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation has not seen the painting and knows it chiefly from a small image in the reconstruction of Guillaume’s office at the Musée du Luxembourg.

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.