Identification

Published titles

English: Blonde Woman Seated in Front of a Bed; Woman Seated in Front of a Bed.
French: Woman in a Pink Blouse; The Pink Blouse.

Date

The museum dates the work 1916–1919. Ceroni, Lanthemann and MR date it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

98 × 63 cm in MR. Pfannstiel, Ceroni and Patani give 100 × 65 cm. The museum title used here is The Pink Blouse.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Musée Angladon, Collection Jacques Doucet, Avignon.

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. Jacques Doucet Collection, Paris, acquired 1923.
3. Musée Angladon, Collection Jacques Doucet, Avignon.

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, p. 51, reproduced p. 127.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 269 in this investigation (the table on the same page gives no. 328), as Young woman in front of a bed, dated 1919, size 100 × 65 cm.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 383.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 315, as Blonde woman seated in front of a bed, dated 1919.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 327, still as unknown property.⁵
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 98, pp. 378–379, as The pink blouse, size 98 × 63 cm.⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929 (unconfirmed).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 72, titled “la fille du peuple.” This investigation notes that Pfannstiel’s plate 41 belongs to this painting and that the Brussels number was transferred from another work.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 98.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 321, as Young woman in front of a bed, size 100 × 65 cm, dated Paris 1919, provenance Zborowski → Jacques Doucet (1929).

The same bed and background appear in related portraits of 1918–19.

The original page of this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where the sources disagree, both readings are given.