Young woman with braids

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with braids / Woman with macaroons. French: Jeune fille aux tresses / Jeune fille aux macarons.

Date

1918 in Lanthemann and in the Charpentier 1958 catalogue.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

46 × 33 cm (Charpentier 1958: 45.5 × 33 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top left.

Present location

Private collection. Offered by David Lévy Fine Art at Masterpiece London, 2019.

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. Galerie Van Leer, Paris?
2. Roger Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
3. Laurent Delhief Collection (acquired from Dutilleul c. 1950, according to a later dealer notice).
4. Private collection, France.
5. Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris.
6. Private collection, Switzerland?
7. David Lévy Fine Art, Masterpiece London, 2019.

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.

• Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958, no. 53.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 264, as Jeune fille aux macarons, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 70, as Jeune fille aux tresses, dated 1918, private collection.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 25.
• Tokyo and related Japanese venues, 1980–88 and 2007.
• South Korea, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, 2008 (MR).
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Budapest and Helsinki, 2016–17.
• London, Masterpiece, David Lévy Fine Art, 2019.

Notes

Recorded in the D’Atri papers as an external photograph.

A 2019 dealer notice stated that MR had confirmed the work for a forthcoming catalogue. The statement is recorded as published; it is not independently verified here.

A photograph of the canvas in Dutilleul’s house is dated c. 1954 in one catalogue, while the same notice places the sale to Delhief around 1950. The dates as published do not agree.

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.