Simone Thiroux
Oil on canvas, 1916 or 1917 according to the compilers?
Identification
- Title
- French: Simone Thiroux / Jeune femme à la guimpe blanche.
- Date
- Parisot 1916, later dated it 1917 in exhibition catalogues.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 73 × 50 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO? |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO? |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| 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
- Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 May 1939, lot 75, as Jeune femme à la guimpe blanche (recorded with a query).
- Olga Sidamon-Eristavi (owner in 2009?), 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.
- Claudio Strinati, Christian Parisot and Massimo Riposati, Modigliani una storia segreta, Milan, Carte Segrete, 2009.
Exhibitions
- Rome, Avvocatura Generale dello Stato, Sala Vanvitelli, Modigliani — Un amore segreto, 2009 (curated by Parisot, Strinati, Goriainov and Mezzatesta).
- Milan, Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Modigliani una storia segreta, 2009.
- Rome, Palazzo Taverna, Bianco Modigliani, 2010.
- Vitória, Palácio Anchieta; Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes; São Paulo, MASP; Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Modigliani — Imagens de uma vida, 2012, curated by Parisot (dated 1917).
- Taormina, Palazzo Corvaja, Modigliani experience, les femmes, 2018.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation records that the work was seized by the Italian police and that a court in Rome later declared the work original.
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.
