Young woman with a small white collar

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman / Young woman with a small white collar.

Date

1917? Marcel Bernheim 1931 dated the canvas 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

70 × 50 cm?

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Marcel Bernheim Collection, Paris (1929?).
3. 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, p. 31.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 190, as young woman with a small white collar, dated 1917.²

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Modigliani retrospective, 1931, no. 19, as Portrait of a woman, dated 1918.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 304, as Jeune femme au petit col blanc, dated 1917, provenance Marcel Bernheim 1929.

This investigation notes that Pfannstiel dated the canvas 1918 in the 1931 exhibition and 1917 in his catalogue raisonné.

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.