Identification

Published titles

English: Seated woman in a blue dress; Young woman with fringe; The blue dress.

Date

1917–19 (Moderna Museet). MR dates the canvas 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm (Moderna Museet, inv. NM 4897). Oil on canvas. The museum titles the picture Femme assise à la robe bleue.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Moderna Museet, Stockholm (inv. NM 4897). Gift of Oscar Stern, 1951. The museum dates the canvas 1917–19 and gives 92 × 60 cm.

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. Oscar Stern Collection.
2. Moderna Museet, Stockholm (inv. NM 4897), gift of Oscar Stern, 1951.

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.

• Paletten, no. 1, 1944.
• Per Bjurström, Nationalmuseum 1792–1992, Stockholm, 1992, ill. p. 297.
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 72, pp. 322–23, as Young woman with fringe or Woman seated in blue dress, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Museum of Our Wishes, 1963–64.
• Stockholm, Moderna Museet, collection redisplays, 1998–2002 and 2004.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 72.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 49.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2008.
• Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Den tidiga modernismen, 2011.
• Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.
• Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016.
• Helsinki, Ateneum, 2016–17.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Absent from Ceroni and Patani. Included by MR.

The same head type is compared with other portraits sometimes named Barrey or Kiki.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.