Head of a Young Woman

Identification

Published titles

English: Head of a Young Woman; Portrait of a Young Woman; Girl’s Head.

Date

Lanthemann dates the work 1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

Lanthemann gives format 10M, that is 55 × 33 cm.

Signature

Not recorded.

Present location

Collection unknown.

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. Not documented.

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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 401, as Head of a Young Woman (en buste, avec frange), dated 1919.¹
• A colour photograph in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art is cited in this investigation, without further data.

Exhibitions

• No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person and, in several cases, not even in a reliable colour reproduction.

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.