Anne Bjarne

Identification

Published titles

English: Anne Bjarne; Annie Bjarne.

Date

Usually given as 1919; MR dates the work November 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at upper right.

Present location

Private collection (unconfirmed)

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. Hugh Blaker, London (acquired from Zborowski in 1919).
3. Murray Urquhart, London.
4. Leicester Galleries, London.
5. The Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired 1966; Arts Review, 25 November 1967, p. 435).
6. David Bakalar, Boston.
7. Sotheby’s, New York, sale 5483, lot 1c, May 1986.
8. Meshulam Riklis collection / McCrory Corporation (unconfirmed).
9. Christie’s, New York, sale 5483, lot 16, May 1994 (unconfirmed; the sale number repeats the 1986 Sotheby’s number and should be checked).
10. Meshulam Riklis, consigned the work to Matsart Auctioneers and Appraisers / Millon & Associés, Jerusalem, 2 July 2013, lot 326 (Times of Israel link).
    Sale note: letter of 3 December 2001 stating that the work would be included in a forthcoming Wildenstein Institute catalogue raisonné.
    Reported sold to a French collector for $8.6 million (NIS 31.5 million, including the buyer’s premium).
    The painting was not brought to Israel. It was auctioned in absentia, from New York, to avoid 18 per cent VAT (Times of Israel link).

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.

• Murray Urquhart, “The Blaker Diary,” Apollo 78 (20 October 1963), p. 298.¹
• Inge Finsen, “Modigliani and Two Swedish Ladies,” Apollo 81 (February 1965), p. 133.²
• James Wykes-Joyce, “XIX and XX Century French Paintings,” Arts Review 19 (25 November 1967), p. 435.
• MR, L’Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 108, pp. 398–399, dated November 1919.³
• MR, Le Silence éternel, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008, p. 183. This investigation notes that this entry gives the Evelyn Sharp collection in error, mixing the provenance with the Thora Klinckowström portrait.³

Exhibitions

• London, The Lefevre Gallery, XIX & XX Century French Paintings, 1967, no. 9.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, long-term loan.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 108.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 73.
• Tokyo, The National Art Center, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 61.
• Osaka, The National Museum of Art, 2008, no. 61.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, 2008.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Modigliani Research Project added the painting to Newly-accepted oil paintings.

The same Danish drawing inv. KKS1959-24 has been associated with this portrait. The inscription addresses Klinckowström; treat the link as unverified.

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.