Girl with a polka dot blouse by Amedeo Modigliani
Image Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 149 Nº 273 Nº 298 YES 13/1919 Nº 309 YES YES
Date 1919 ??
Title Girl in a polka dot blouse - Girl in a polka dot shirt - Girl in polka dots - Young girl - Young girl with flowered shirt
Materials oil on canvas
Size 115.6 x 73 cm (Ceroni, Patani 116 x 73)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Inv. nº BF180)
Provenance -?-
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Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Private Collection, Geneva?
Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Inv. nº BF180)

In process

Bibliography

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Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926, p. 232
Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. 2nd Ed. Berlin: Propyläen-verlag, 1928, p. 293
Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 25
Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1931, p. 293 
Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana nº 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1932, pl. 11
Barnes, de Mazia. The Art of Henri-Matisse. New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1933, 344 - nº 448
Barnes, The Art in Painting. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1937 - nº 223
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 149 - titled Young girl seated (with polka dots shirt) - dated 1917 - wrong size 116 x 73
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - nº 204
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 298 - titled Girl in a polka dot blouse - dated 1919 - wrong size 116 x 73
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 273 - titled Young girl with flowered shirt - dated 1918
De Mazia, "Aesthetic Quality." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 2, no. 1 (Spring 1971): 16, pl. 15
"Learning to See." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 1 (Spring 1972): 14, pl. 4
Sweeney, J "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, Autumn 1972, pl. 15
Ceroni & Cachin, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972 - nº 298 - titled Girl in a polka dot blouse - dated 1919 - wrong size 116 x 73
"Transferred Values: Part I--Introduction." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1978): 15, pl. 19
"The Barnes Foundation: The Display of Its Art Collection." Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981-1983): 118, pl. 37
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 309 - titled Young girl with polka dots shirt - dated 1919 - wrong size 116 x 73
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 13/ 1919 - titled Young gilr with a polka dot shirt - dated 1919 - wrong size 116 x 73
Wattenmaker, Distel. Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf /Lincoln University Press, 1993, p.224-225
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
Dolkart, Lucy, Gillman. The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012: 186-187, 190, 198


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The painting has never left the Barnes since it was acquired


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Signature:

signature in bottom left in black
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Image Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation


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Framed at the Barnes Collection:


framed
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The painting in location at the Barnes:

The painting in location at the Barnes
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in location at the barnes


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Probably the same girl as in this other painting dated 1918:

Woman amedeo modigliani - woman or the merry school girl, dated 1918 by experts
Girl with a Polka-Dot Blouse amedeo modigliani- girl in a polka dot blouse dated 1919

Both head to compare:
both head to compare

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