Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman; Bust of a young woman; Face of a young woman.

Date

1916?
Ceroni 1958 dated it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.

Dimensions

66 × 51 cm, recorded with a query. The 1963 Edinburgh/London exhibition: 65 × 50 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom 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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Jacques Netter, Paris.
3. Galleria del Milione, Milan (no. 4375).
4. Riccardo Gualino, Milan (in 1930; Venturi locates the work in Turin).
5. Sale, Z. Pisa, Milan, 7 February 1934, lot 186, pl. CXXV.
6. Fausta Panizzuti, Milan.
7. Adriano Pallini, Milan (already recorded by Pfannstiel; shown as Pallini property in 1946. A later Christie’s note that Pallini acquired the work in 1964 is inconsistent with those earlier records).
8. Anna Bolchini Bonomi, Milan (by 1963).
9. Private foundation, Europe (recorded with a query).
10. Sale, Christie’s, London, sale 4996, 21 June 1993, lot 20; estimate £2,000,000–3,000,000; sold £2,861,500.
11. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, sale 7545, 9 November 2000, lot 44; estimate USD 4,000,000–6,000,000; sold USD 3,400,000.
12. 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.

• Lionello Venturi, “Sulla linea di Modigliani,” Poligono, Milan, February 1930, p. 196 (Gualino Collection, Turin).
• Raffaele Calzini, Raccolta Z. Pisa, Milan, 1934, pl. 125.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 230.¹
• Franco Russoli, Palazzo Reale exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1958, pl. 58.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, p. 57, no. 94 (dated 1917).²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 120.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 138.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 27/1916.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94.⁶
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 24.⁷
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁸

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, 1930, no. 7.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art italien contemporain, 1935, no. 72.
• Milan, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946, no. 13 (dated 1918, Pallini property).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1950.
• Verbania, I capolavori dell’arte contemporanea italiana, 1954, no. 27.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 38.
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 24.
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, and London, Tate Gallery, 1963, no. 32.

Notes

D’Atri papers: recorded with a query.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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