Identification

Published titles

English: Woman in black.
French: La femme en noir.

Date

1916?
Pfannstiel dates it 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.

Dimensions

79.7 × 52.7 cm, recorded with a query. Pfannstiel: 81 × 54 cm.

Signature

This investigation records the work as unsigned, with a query. Pfannstiel records it as signed.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query. Hobby Collection, Houston, is recorded as of 2008, 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. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Tableaux, pastels, aquarelles, gouaches, dessins, 17 March 1928, lot 28.
2. New York, De Hauke & Co., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, 1929 (recorded with a query).
3. Frank Crowninshield, New York.
4. Knoedler Gallery (recorded with a query).
5. Hobby Collection, Houston (2008, recorded with a query).

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. 40.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 254 (81 × 54 cm, signed, dated 1918, location unpublished).²
• MR, 2008, no. 56 (as La femme en noir, dated 1916).³

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929 (recorded with a query).
• Tokyo, National Art Center, and Osaka, National Museum of Art, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 56.

Notes

D’Atri papers: recorded with a query in this investigation.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records a smaller version of the same composition, on cardboard, at an unpublished location, registered in the D’Atri papers (file 1916-w-89).

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