Head of a Girl

Identification

Published titles

English: Head of a Girl; Portrait of a Girl.

Date

Arthur Tooth & Sons exhibited the work in 1954 as 1916. This investigation allows 1916–1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on panel (unconfirmed). Dauberville 2015 lists a related Bernheim-Jeune stock item, incorrectly, as a drawing.

Dimensions

24.7 × 15.7 cm (unconfirmed).

Signature

Not recorded.

Present location

Private collection (sold from Tooth in 1954).

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. Possibly the Ferraterie collection.
2. Possibly the Baddeley collection.
3. Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, stock no. 3650 (by 1954).
4. Sold to a private collection, 1954.

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.

• Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015, no. 78, as Girl’s Head, stock no. 09277, June 1953, incorrectly described as a drawing.¹

Exhibitions

• London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Acquisitions IX, 1954 (dated 1916).

Notes

An external photograph in the D’Atri papers records size and a location in the Ferraterie collection; the work is not in the general D’Atri list.

This investigation identifies the same child in several other portraits of 1918–1919.

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.