Jeanne Hébuterne?

Oil on canvas?, 1918–1919?

Date1918–1919?

MediumOil on canvas?

Size70 × 34 cm

CollectionPrivate collection?

SignatureTop left

Investigation1919-w-81

Identification

Published titles: English: Jeanne Hébuterne?; Jeanne Hébuterne.
Date: Lanthemann dates the work 1919. This investigation allows 1918–1919.
Medium: Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).
Dimensions: 70 × 34 cm. This unusual format is one of the few sizes Lanthemann specifies.
Signature: Signed modigliani at top left.
Present location: Private collection.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	NO
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 399
Ambrogio Ceroni	NO
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	?
Osvaldo Patani	NO
Modigliani Project	?
MR	?
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

Not documented.
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.

Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 399, dated 1919, with the note that the work has been heavily restored.¹
June Rose, Modigliani, London, Constable, 1990; American edition, Modigliani: The Pure Bohemian, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1991, p. 203.²

Exhibitions

No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

Lanthemann states that the painting has been heavily restored. No conservation report is attached in this investigation.

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.

Portrait sometimes identified as Jeanne Hébuterne — The painting. Image from this investigation.

Signature at top left. Image from this investigation.

Footnotes

Joseph Lanthemann, Barcelona, Gráficas Condal, 1970.
June Rose, London, Constable, 1990; New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1991.