Seated woman (Art Institute of Chicago)
Oil on cardboard, c. 1917–19
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Portrait of a woman; Girl. The sitter has also been named Fernande Barrey, Kiki de Montparnasse and Madame Kisling; none of those identifications is settled.
- Date
- c. 1917–19 (Art Institute of Chicago). Pfannstiel dates the panel 1916. This investigation had dated it 1918.
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard (Art Institute of Chicago, current record). An earlier museum listing, including AMICA, gave oil on canvas. This investigation’s visual reading of a textured board now agrees with the museum page.
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 45.4 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 1954.316). Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954. Signed upper right. The museum gives 55.9 × 45.4 cm, which matches this file.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 94 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| 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
- Galerie Zborowski, Paris, probably acquired from the artist (museum information; not independently checked).
- Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1929).
- Reinhardt Galleries, New York (by 1936).
- Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Chicago, acquired 2 October 1936.
- Art Institute of Chicago (inv. 1954.316), Winterbotham bequest, 1954.
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, pp. 14–15.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 94, as Woman with blue bodice, dated 1916.2
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings, University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 57–58, pl. 3A4.
Exhibitions
- Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1936, no. 27, as Girl.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers?
Holes are visible at the four corners.
Visual inspection recorded in this investigation notes traces of an earlier signature at lower left and a red ground consistent with a previous composition beneath the present image.
The same head type is compared with other portraits sometimes named Barrey or Kiki.
The 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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.