Elvira with a white collar

Identification

Published titles

English: Elvira with a white collar / The girl of the people / The doll girl.
French: La fille du peuple / La fille poupée.

Date

1918? MR dates the canvas 1917–1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 65 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 (1929).
2. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris? (this investigation, unconfirmed).
4. 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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 269.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 322.²
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 282.³
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁴
• MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012, cat. 37, dated 1917 or 1918.⁵

Exhibitions

• Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012, curated by MR.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, same exhibition, 2013.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, Modigliani, Soutine and other legends of Montparnasse (the Netter Collection), 2017–18, curated by MR.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2019–20.

Notes

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

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas. Two of the holes are recorded as covered.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records a similar version in the D’Atri papers, 92 × 60 cm, present location unknown.

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.