Young woman with hat

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni: oil on canvas), dated 1909–1911 according to the compilers

Identification

Title

Young woman with hat / Donna con cappello / Femme au chapeau. This investigation records a landscape sketch on the verso, not mentioned by Ceroni.

Date

1910–11?
Ceroni dates the work 1909. Lanthemann dates it 1908.

Medium

Oil on cardboard. Ceroni records oil on canvas.

Dimensions

35 × 27 cm.

Signature

Unsigned.

Present location

Hays Collection, Nashville. This investigation also records a loan to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

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. Mme Denise Sasportas, Paris (recorded in 1958).
2. Wildenstein & Co., New York.
3. Edward G. Robinson Collection, Los Angeles.
4. Hays Collection, Nashville.
5. Loan to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (recorded in this investigation).

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.

• Cent tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1958, no. 10.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 15 (dated 1908).¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 26 (dated 1909).²
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 28.³
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 10.
• Tokyo, Grand Magasin Seibu, Modigliani, 1968, no. 5.
• Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani, 1968, no. 5.
• Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani, 1985, no. 19.
• Aichi, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Modigliani, 1985, no. 19.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani, 1990, no. 11.
• Paris, Musée d’Orsay, The Collection of Marlene and Spencer Hays. A Passion for France, 2013.

Notes

This investigation records a landscape sketch on the verso that is not mentioned in Ceroni.

This investigation publishes installation photographs from the 2013 Musée d’Orsay exhibition and views of the work in the Hays residences.

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