Jeanne Hébuterne seated frontally

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne seated / Jeanne Hébuterne seated frontally / The wife of the artist.

Date

1918. Lanthemann dates the canvas 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm (Pfannstiel: 92 × 60.5 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Werner Merzbacher Collection / Merzbacher Kunststiftung, Switzerland.

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.
2. Galerie Bing et Cie, Paris.
3. Olaf Berg Collection, Sweden (by 1929).
4. Werner Merzbacher Collection, Zurich / Merzbacher Kunststiftung.

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.

• Waldemar George, Modigliani, l’amour de l’art, Paris, 1925, p. 387.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 45.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 327, as The wife of the artist, dated 1918.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 215.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 376, dated 1919.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 221, dated 1918.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 3/1918.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 230, dated 1918.⁷
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Lugano 1999, no. 58. The Decrooq / MR paintings catalogue reproduces the image reversed.
• Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, p. 125, no. 39.⁸
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate Modern, 2017, p. 186.⁹

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925, no. 4.
• Verona, Palazzo Forti, Modigliani a Montparnasse, 1988.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 91.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 63.
• Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 1994, no. 8.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Color, 2002.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 39.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 103.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Fest der Farbe, 2012.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2012 and 2013, no. 17.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 177, as Portrait of Jeanne (the wife of the artist), dated 1918, Nice, 91.5 × 60.5 cm; provenance Zborowski > Olaf Berg, Sweden, 1929.

Holes at the four corners are recorded as restored (covered).

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.