Beatrice Hastings Head

Oil on canvas?— 1915 ?

Identification

Title

English: Beatrice Hastings Head.

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas ?

Dimensions

46.5 x 28,5 cm ?

Signature

Signed "modigliani" bottom left

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. Private Coll. Geneva
2. Sale: Drouot - Paris -16 /06 / 1959
3. Léon Rosenberg Collection, Paris?
4. Sale: Sotheby's - London
5. 03 / 07 / 1968

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.

• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 63¹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 66 (46.5 x 28 - woman head - PC Geneva)²
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 68 - titled Woman head - 46.5 x 28.5³

Exhibitions

• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 17
• Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - no. 12

Notes

Image in black and white:

There is a very similar composition:

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.