Beatrice Hastings in front of a door

Oil on canvas — 1915

Date1915

MediumOil on canvas

Size81. 3 x 46.4 cm

CollectionPrivate Collection (Ivor Braka Ltd?)

SignatureSigned "Modigliani / 1915" in top right

Investigation15-68

Identification

Title: English: Beatrice Hastings in front of a door. French: Beatrice Hastings devant une porte.
Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81. 3 x 46.4 cm
Signature: Signed "Modigliani / 1915" in top right
Present location: Private Collection (Ivor Braka Ltd?)

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	no. 39
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 83
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 81
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	20/1915
Osvaldo Patani	no. 83
Modigliani Project	YES
MR	YES
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

Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Marcel Bernheim Collection, Paris
Baixeras Collection, Paris
Sale: Drouot, Paris, 27 / February / 1932 - Lot 91 as La femme au médaillon (not sure on this entry, but is more than probably)
Leon Brillouin Collection, New York (by 1956)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Collection Louis Ritter, Scarsdale, New York (by 1959)
sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet ., New York, 25 October 1972, lot 36
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, Japan (by the late 1970s).
Sold in Auction: Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art (Evening Sale)
New York | 6 November 2002 - Lot 35
Estimate:
3.000.000 - 4.000.000 USD - Sold: 4.189.500 USD
Private Collection (lent to Royal academy by Ivor Braka Ltd, London)

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 Little Review, Autumn and winter, Paris/London -1923-1924, repr. p. 79
Salmon, Modigliani, sa vie et son oeuvre, Ed. Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926 - p. 21 ( as "au chapeau")
Kunst und Künstler, no. XXVIII- Bruno Cassirer, Berlin 1929 - p. 393 (Illustrated)
Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 15 - p. 6¹
T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954, p. 27
Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, p. 31²
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 39³
Salmon, Modigliani a memoir, Putnam's sons, New York, 1957 - p. 31 ( as "Beatrice Hastings")
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 45⁴
Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 70
Werner, Amedeo Modigliani , H. Abrams, New York 1966, p. 93 - 1967 p. 84⁵
Geza, Modigliani, Tchekislovakia, 1969 - no. 18
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 83⁶
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 81⁷
Carswell, Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky, London, 1978, p. 121
Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 11 - no. 76⁸
Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 65⁹
Castieau-Barrielle, Modigliani, ACR Editions, Paris, 1987, p. 125¹⁰
O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, catalogo generale: Dipinti, Milan, 1991 - no. 83¹¹
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 20/1915¹²
D. Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing, Cologne, p. 55¹³
MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p. 31¹⁴
Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 129 - pl. 44 ( courtesy Ivor Braka Ltd. London)¹⁵
Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 2006, p. 85 - no. 9¹⁶
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹⁷

Exhibitions

Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922
Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
Palm Beach, Modigliani, Society of the Four Arts and University of Miami, Lowe Gallery, 1954 - no. 15
New York, Paintings From The Ritter Collection , Fine Arts Associates
Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - no. 4
Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959
Milwaukee, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Center, 1959
Atlanta, The Art of Modigliani: Loan Exhibition Museums, Collectors & Dealers, Art Association Galleries, 1960 - no. 3
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961 - no. 5
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1961 - no. 5
New York, Amedeo Modigliani, Perls Galleries, 1963 - no. 7
Czechoslovakia, Modigliani,1969 - no. 18
New York, Summer Loan Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, Amedeo Modigliani, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1971 - no. 8
New York, Summer Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 1971-1972
Kyoto, Exhibition of Treasured Masterpieces Century Painting, Municipal Museum of Art, 1973
New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
London, Modigliani and his models, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, no. 9 (P.C. courtesy of Ivor Braka Ltd)
Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - no. 46

Notes

no. 267 in D' Atri papers, wrong size 81 x 54 - dated 1915 - Baixeras Coll. by 1929

Signature of the painting:

Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

The painting framed in NY for the 2002 auction:

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

Beatrice hastings in front of a door Amedeo Modigliani

signature

ears

Beatrice hastings in front of a door framed for auction in 2002

Footnotes

Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1953.
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1966.
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958.
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
Doris Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Cologne, Taschen, 2000.
MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2004.
Simonetta Fraquelli et al., Modigliani and His Models, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.