Woman Seated

Oil on canvas?, dated 1916?

Date1916?
MediumOil on canvas?
Size81 x 54cm? (Pfannstiel say 100 x 65)
CollectionPrivate Collection?
SignatureTop Right"modigliani"
Investigation1916-w-36

Identification

Published titles
English: Woman seated; Young woman seated; The wig; Woman with wig.
French: La perruque; Madame X à la toque; Femme a la coiffure; Femme a la toque.
Date
1916?
Medium
Oil on canvas?
Dimensions
81 × 54 cm.?
Signature
Signed modiglian at top right.
Present location
Private Collection, France.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur Pfannstiel no. 316
Joseph Lanthemann no. 139
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne Modigliani YES
Christian Parisot ?
Osvaldo Patani NO?
Modigliani Project?
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

  1. Unknown
  2. Netter Collection, Paris (probably a mistake in the 1933 exhibition based on the owners information)

    D. P. provided us this provenance by email:

  3. Galerie Leopold Zborowski, Paris
  4. Victor Bossuat Collection, Paris
  5. Paul Augier Collection, Paris
  6. Galerie Bellier, Paris
  7. Private Collection, Paris (since 1963 till today)

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

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

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

ear