Identification

Title

Woman in plaid dress / The Scottish dress.

Date

1916?
MR dates it 1917.
The 1958 Charpentier exhibition dated it 1918–1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query.

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. Émile Roche, Paris? (recorded with a query).
2. Galerie Schmit, Paris? (recorded with a query).
3. Private collection, USA (Guggenheim Asher Associates?).
4. Christie’s, New York, 20th Century Art, 12 May 1988, sale 8906, lot 31 (estimate USD 3,500,000–4,500,000; sold USD 5,392,500).
5. 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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1927.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 131.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 112.²
• Galerie Schmit, Tableaux de maîtres français, 1900–1955, Paris, 1973, no. 36, p. 52.
• Raymond Nacenta, The School of Paris, New York, 1981, no. 34, p. 132.
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani exhibition catalogue, 1981, p. 120, no. 33.
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 115.³
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999.
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006, no. 19.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent chefs-d’œuvre de l’art français, 1957.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 92 (dated 1918–1919; no size given).
• Paris, Galerie Schmit, 1973, no. 36.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 33.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 25.

Notes

The original this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.