Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman seated; Margherita seated, frontal; Margherita seated; Woman portrait.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

81 × 40 cm, recorded with a query. MR: 80 × 39.6 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right, in white, with the inscription MARGHERITA at top right.

Present location

Private collection, recorded with a query. Valle 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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Netter Collection, Paris (until 1929).
3. Frua de Angeli, Milan (by 1930).
4. Lampugnani Collection, Milan (1946, recorded with a query).
5. Carminati Collection, Milan (1949, recorded with a query).
6. Barbero Collection, Domodossola (1975).
7. Valle Collection, 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.

• Waldemar George, 1925, p. 386.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 24, no. 7.¹
• Raffaele Carrieri, 1947, no. 6 (dated 1917; 40 × 81 cm; Lampugnani).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 154.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 74.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 157.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 129.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 130.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 23/1916.⁷
• MR, 2002, pp. 246–247.⁸
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 130.⁹
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• Paris, Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917, no. 10 was a portrait of Margherita; which of the three known portraits was shown is unpublished.
• Venice, Biennale, 1930, no. 9.
• Milan, 1946, no. 11.
• La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1947.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1950.
• Rome, Quadriennale, 1952.
• Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1957.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 28.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 12.
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963, no. 17.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 49.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Modigliani y su tiempo, 2008.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 91.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 296, size 73 × 45 cm; located in the Netter Collection in 1929. This investigation notes a possible Pfannstiel duplication of numbers 154–155 with the profile Margherita.

This investigation publishes comparative photographs of appearance before and after cleaning.

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