The Italian woman
Oil on canvas?, 1917?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Young woman head / The Italian woman.
- Date
- 1917? Pfannstiel and the 1962 Sotheby’s lot note date the canvas August 1918, Nice.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 61 × 46 cm? (60 × 45 cm?).
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection? Last named public sale: Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1962.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 265 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO? |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO? |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Hodebert Collection, Paris.
- Alex Reid & Lefevre, London.
- Morton Collection, London?
- Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1962 (lot note: painted in Nice, August 1918).
- 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.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, pp. 42–43.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 265, dated August 1918 as painted in Nice.2
Exhibitions
- London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1929, no. 22.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 153, 61 × 45.5 cm, painted in Nice 1918; provenance Hodebert > Reid & Lefevre.
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.
The original documentation assembled for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.