Marie Vassilieff

Oil on canvas?— 1915–16?

Identification

Title

English: Marie Vassilieff. French: Marie Vassilieff.

Date

1915–16?

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

72 x 54 cm? (1944 sale: 71.6 x 53.3 cm; 1981 catalogue: 72 x 54 cm)

Signature

Unsigned?

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. Unrecorded
2. Léopold Zborowski, Paris
3. Paul Guillaume, Paris
4. Maurice J. Speiser, Philadelphia (acquired from Paul Guillaume; until 1944)
5. Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 26–27 January 1944, lot 96, sold for USD 800
6. M. Zagayski, New York (by 1951)
7. Perls Galleries, New York (by 1981)
8. Private collection?

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.

• Maurice J. Speiser sale catalogue, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1944, illustrated p. 51
• James Thrall Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951, p. 51
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani, exh. cat., 1981, p. 112
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 169
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The Timeless Face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹

Exhibitions

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1934
• Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951, no. 11
• New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, 1951
• Boston, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, 1961, no. 7
• Los Angeles County Museum, 1961
• Tokyo, Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979, no. 4
• Osaka, Daimaru, 1979
• Liège, Modigliani, Musée Saint-Georges, 1980, no. 4
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 20

Notes

A Zborowski/Guillaume provenance would normally imply a Pfannstiel number; no Pfannstiel entry matching this size has been identified in this investigation.

Not recorded in the d’Atri papers?

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

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