Young woman of Montparnasse

Identification

Title

Young woman of Montparnasse / Girl from Montmartre / Young woman of Montmartre. Ceroni and Patani use the Montmartre form. This investigation quotes Ceroni: “This is the title that figures in the old catalogues.”

Date

1915?
MR is recorded as dating it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.

Dimensions

65 × 45 cm in Ceroni and Patani, recorded in this investigation as incorrect. This investigation proposes 63.5 × 44.5 cm as the probable measurement.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, in white.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query.

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. Chéron Collection, Paris (Patani).
2. Private collection, Zurich (Patani).
3. Albert D. Lasker Collection, Texas.
4. Private collection, United States (recorded with a query).

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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• Dorothy C. Brockway and Alfred Frankfurter, The Albert D. Lasker Collection: Renoir to Matisse, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1957, p. 53.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 68, as Young woman of Montmartre, dated 1915, 65 × 45 cm.²
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 72, as Young woman of Montmartre, dated 1915, 65 × 45 cm.³

Exhibitions

• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Albert D. Lasker Collection, 1953 (this investigation records the caption “as red carrot?”).

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Ceroni is quoted in this investigation: “This is the title that figures in the old catalogues.”

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them.

The original this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.