Woman head
Oil on canvas? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman head.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (probably cardboard)
- Dimensions
- 56.4 x 41.5 cm ? (1938 auction size 58 x 43 cm)
- Signature
- signed "modigliani " low right in brown
- Present location
- Private Coll.?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 79 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | NO |
| 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
- Sale: Drouot, Paris - 15 June 1938
- Lot 80 - Reproduced.
- Autuso Coll. Rome
- Sale: Sotheby's, London 25th March 1985 - Lot 15 sold for 245.000 GBP
- Private Coll.?
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.
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 20071
Exhibitions
- Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 25 - dated 1917
Notes
Authenticated by Andre Schoeller 15-June-1953
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.