Girl with bangs (La frange)

Identification

Published titles

English: Girl with black hair; The cut hair.
French: Jeune fille à la frange; La noire.

Date

1916–17. Pfannstiel 1956: end of 1917. Lanthemann: 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

53 × 36 cm? 1947 exhibition: 54 × 37 cm. 1921: 55 × 38 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Private collection. Galerie de La Béraudière, Paris, recorded in 2016.

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. B. de Volnay, Paris.
2. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, acquired 16 April 1921.
3. Paul Guillaume, Paris, acquired 27 May 1924.
4. Collezione del Milione, Milan.
5. Private collection, Milan.
6. Galerie de La Béraudière, Paris (2016).

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. 16; 1956, no. 103 (dated end of 1917).¹
• Waldemar George, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1929, p. 143.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 265 (dated 1918; same model as his no. 264).²
• Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, 2015, no. 21.³

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922, no. 12, as The cut hair.
• Venice, XIII Biennale, 1922, Sala XII, no. 6.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929.
• Milan, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946, no. 8 (dated 1917; 54 × 37 cm).
• Paris, SNA and La Biennale-Paris, Galerie de La Béraudière, stand S16, 2016.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Lanthemann records the same model as his no. 264.

This investigation reproduces an almost identical image published by Parisot and, after Lanthemann’s death, under Lanthemann’s name.

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.