Portrait of a young woman (New Orleans)

Identification

Published titles

English: Unknown model / Portrait of a young woman.

Date

1918–19, unconfirmed. MR dates the canvas 1918–19.

Medium

Oil on canvas. Published reproductions and the museum accession (92.68) treat the work as oil on canvas, 61 × 45.7 cm, dated 1918.

Dimensions

61 × 45.7 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

New Orleans Museum of Art (inv. 92.68), gift of Marjorie Fry Davis and Walter Davis, Jr., through the Davis Family Fund.

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. Sturgis Ingersoll Collection, New York (by 1929; recorded again in 1971?).
2. Davis Collection, New Orleans.
3. New Orleans Museum of Art, gift of Marjorie Fry Davis and Walter Davis, Jr.

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.

• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 88, pp. 354–355, as Young woman, dated 1918–19.¹
• Christian Parisot, 2006, no. 37.²
• Paloma Alarcó, 2007, no. 55, p. 140.³

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, 1929, no. 8?
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani: loan exhibition, 1971, no. 38, dated 1918, Ingersoll Collection.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, 2002, no. 88.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, 2003, no. 61.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, The Mirror and the Mask, 2007, no. 55.
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Mirror and the Mask, 2007.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 164.

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.