Identification

Published titles

English: The young maid; The young maid with striped apron; Seated servant.
French: La servante; La petit servante; La servante au tablier rayé; Zofe.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

92 × 64.8 cm.

Signature

Signed modiglian at bottom center right.

Present location

Terry & Jean De Gunzburg Collection, London.?

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. Unknown
2. Leopold Zborowski, Paris
3. Netter Collection, Paris
   
4. Bernard Dorival Collection, Paris
   
5. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
   
6. Private Collection (acquired at Wildenstein 24/April/1979)
   
7. Sale: Christie's - TWENTIETH CENTURY ART - 19 November 1998 - New York, Park Avenue - Sale 9066 - Lot 342
   Estimate: 3.500.000 - 4.500.000 USD - Sold: 3.082.500 USD
   
   Lot Condition Report: Glue lined. Varnished. Some craquelure to the following areas: in the black area on right side of canv as; to the figure's shirt; some fine cracks to hands. Examined under ultraviolet light.
   Small losses with associated retouching as follows: several scattered to background at proper right of figure; a few specks scattered along left contour of figure; in background to upper
   right and lower right corners; and a few to figure's shirt near right side of skirt. The colors in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate overall.
   A photo-certificate from MR of the Wildenstein Institute dated Paris, 10 September 1998 accompanies this painting.
   
   
8. Terry & Jean De Gunzburg Collection, London.

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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 22
  
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 75
  
• Modigliani J. , Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958 - nº 38
  
• Modigliani J. , Modigliani senza leggenda, Vallecchi Editore, Firenze, 1958
  
• Dalevze, Modigliani, figures, Lausanne, 1960, p. 19
  
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 123
  
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 123
  
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 126
  
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, p. 98
  
• Fraquelli, Modigliani, Fort Worth and Paris, in Burlington Magazine, 145, 2003
  
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007
  
• Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 117

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition. Palais des beaux-arts, 1933 - nº 33
  
• Basel, Amedeo Modigliani, Kunsthalle, 1934 - nº 25
  
• Buffalo NY, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Albright-Knox Gallery, 2002-2003 - nº 13
  
• Fort Worth, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Kimbell art Museum, 2003 - nº 13
  
• Los Angeles, Modigliani and the artists of Montparnasse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003 - nº 13
  
• London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
  
• St. Petersburg, Modigliani, Soutine and other legends... (the Netter Coll.), Curated by MR, Fabergé Museum, 2017-18

Notes

This investigation marks the work as no. 33 in the D’Atri papers, dated 1917- provenance in Netter.

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

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

Signature:


Canvas with holes in the 4 corners (some of them half covered with a later varnish layer).
The painting framed in location at the London Gunzburg Residence:


Same sitter is recognizable in at least other 5 paintings.