Bust of a Blond Woman

Identification

Published titles

English: Bust of a Blond Woman; Portrait of a Young Woman; Head of a Woman.

Date

Pfannstiel dated a related entry 1916–17. Ceroni and MR date this canvas 1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

65 × 46 cm (unconfirmed).

Signature

Unsigned. This investigation asks whether the painting is unfinished.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Netter Collection, Paris.
3. Private collection.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 11; 1956, no. 76, as Young Girl, dated 1916–17.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970, no. 296, dated 1919.
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 90, pp. 358–359, dated 1919.¹

Exhibitions

• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 90.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 62.
• Tokyo, National Art Center, and Osaka, National Museum of Art, 2008, no. 55.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

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.