Young Woman with Black Hair
Oil on canvas, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Young Woman with Black Hair; Portrait of a Woman; Bust of a Woman.
- Date
- Bonhams dates the painting to the winter of about 1918–1919. This investigation had placed it in 1919.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 65 × 49.4 cm, as published by Bonhams.
- Signature
- Recorded as unsigned (unconfirmed).
- Present location
- Private collection after the 2012 sale.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | NO |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Galerie Zborowski, Paris.
- Acquired from Zborowski by Mrs John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 19 May 1931.
- Loaned to Mrs Laurance S. Rockefeller, 2 March 1936.
- Gift from Mrs John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to Mr and Mrs Laurance S. Rockefeller, 22 December 1939, and by descent until 2012.
- Bonhams, London, sale 19954, 7 February 2012, lot 10, estimate £700,000–1,000,000, sold £825,250.
- 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.
- The Art News, New York, 7 March 1931, p. 6.
- The Art News, New York, 16 May 1931.
- Note e ricordi su Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), 1945, illustrated as in the Zborowski collection.
Exhibitions
- New York, Bourgeois Gallery, 1931.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers.
The 2012 auction catalogue stated that the work would be included in MR’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné, prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute. It sold for £825,250 including premium.
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.
