Young woman (Petit garçon)

Oil on canvas or cardboard?, 1917

Date1917
MediumOil on canvas or cardboard?
Size61 × 38 cm?
CollectionPrivate collection?
SignatureTop right
Investigation1917-w-12

Identification

Published titles
English: Woman; Young woman.
French: Femme; Jeune fille; Petit garçon.
Date
1917.
Medium
Oil on canvas? This investigation also records cardboard as a probable support.
Dimensions
Not firmly recorded. Pfannstiel: 61 × 38 cm. Bernheim-Jeune: 62 × 38 cm.
Signature
Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location
Private collection? Location unknown after 1926.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur Pfannstielno. 204
Joseph Lanthemannno. 226
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne ModiglianiYES
Christian Parisot?
Osvaldo PataniNO
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

  1. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
  2. Parent Collection, Paris.
  3. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired 19 October 1925), titled Petit garçon, stock no. 24402.
  4. Georges Bénard Collection, Paris (acquired 14 January 1926 for 14,000 French francs).
  5. Unknown location.

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.

Young woman
The painting as reproduced in this investigation.

Footnotes

  1. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
  2. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
  3. Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
  4. Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015.