Beatrice Hastings

Oil on cardboard? — 1915

Identification

Title

English: Beatrice Hastings.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni, Pfannstiel, Parisot: oil on canvas)

Dimensions

55.5 x 45.4 cm (Ceroni, Parisot: 55 x 46 cm)

Signature

Signed “modigliani / 1915” at bottom centre (possible remains of the inscription Hastings at bottom right)

Present location

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (inv. no. 71/260)

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. Unrecorded before the published chains
2. Patani: Georges Chéron, Paris; Zacks Collection, Toronto
3. Other published chain: Paul Guillaume Collection, Paris; private collection, Paris; Henry Pearlman, New York; Fine Arts Associates, New York (1954); Zacks Collection, Toronto (1955)
4. Art Gallery of Ontario, gift of Sam and Ayala Zacks, 1970 (inv. no. 71/260)

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.

• Pfannstiel, “catalogue présumé”, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 10¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, Paris, 1956, no. 63 (incorrect signature position and support)²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre, 1958, no. 35³
• Roy, Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 57
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 85⁴
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 79⁵
• Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, 1991, no. 22/1915⁶
• Patani, Catalogo generale, 1991–94, no. 80⁷
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams / Albright-Knox, New York, 2002, p. 83⁸
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004–2005, p. 74, fig. 1⁹
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The Timeless Face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹⁰

Exhibitions

• New York, Amedeo Modigliani, Fine Arts Associates, 1954
• Toronto, Zacks Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1956
• Winnipeg, Zacks Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1957
• Walker Art Center; Minneapolis; Vancouver Art Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Pasadena Art Museum; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Queen’s University, Kingston: Zacks Collection, 1957
• Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959, no. 5
• Chicago, The Arts Club, 1959; Milwaukee Art Center, 1959
• Boston, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961, no. 4
• Los Angeles, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum, 1961, no. 4
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963, no. 5
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963, no. 5
• Czechoslovakia, Modigliani, 1969
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991, no. 24
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 24
• Buffalo, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2002–2003, no. 6
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003, no. 6
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003, no. 6
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
• Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004–2005
• Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, 2005

Notes

Not recorded in the d’Atri papers in this investigation.

The painting has pin holes at the four corners.

The drawing of the ears remains visible and is painted over the colour.

Pfannstiel 1956 records an incorrect signature position and support.

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