Identification

Title

Woman bust / Madame C. D..

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on cardboard. Pola Museum: panel. Ceroni: canvas. MR: wood.

Dimensions

79.5 × 48.5 cm. Ceroni: 80 × 49 cm. Pfannstiel gives two sizes, 80 × 49 and 80 × 50 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Louis Franck Collection, Antwerp (in 1933).
3. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (in 1951?).
4. Private collection, Paris (in 1972?).
5. Pola Museum, Hakone.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 36.¹
• Pierre Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, Braun, 1951, pl. 41 (80 × 49 cm; photograph from the Bernheim-Jeune archive).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 218 (80 × 49 cm) and no. 313 (80 × 50 cm), with the same ownership and exhibition history in both entries.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 167.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 117.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 120.⁵
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999, p. 62.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Modigliani, 1922, no. 33.
• Venice, XIII Biennale, 1922, Sala XII, no. 11, as Una ragazza (no. 163677).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 80, reproduced p. 26.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 69.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 27.
• Tokyo and Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 29.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, 2008, curated by MR.
• Hakone, Pola Museum of Art, Finding Modigliani, 2014.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 80, provenance Louis Franck, 1933.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

Pfannstiel lists the work twice (nos. 218 and 313) with nearly identical data.

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.