Margherita seated in profile
Oil on canvas, dated 1916 or 1917 according to the compilers
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Young woman seated; Margherita seated in profile; Margherita seated.
- Date
- 1916?
Pfannstiel and MR date it 1917. - Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 73 × 50 cm, recorded with a query. Pfannstiel: 51 × 46 cm. Werner: 80 × 45 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection, recorded with a query.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 156 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 158 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 130 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES? |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 132 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Netter Collection, Paris.
- Galerie Zak, Paris.
- Galerie Bing, Paris (1929), recorded with a query.
- Harry N. Abrams Collection, New York (1953).
- Thereafter unpublished.
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.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 25.1
- Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Abrams, 1952–54, pl. 32 (45.7 × 50.8 cm; dated 1917).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 156.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 76.3
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 158.4
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 130 (dated 1916).5
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94.6
- MR, 2002, mention pp. 246–247.7
- Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.8
Exhibitions
- Paris, Berthe Weill Gallery, 1917, no. 10 was a portrait of Margherita; this investigation notes that it is not possible to say which of the three known portraits was shown.
- Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933 (number unpublished).
- Denver Art Museum, Exhibition of Masterpieces, 1956.
- Atlanta Art Association, 1960.
- Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 14.
- New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 14 (Harry N. Abrams Family Collection; 31½ × 17½ in.).
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 297, dated 1917, size 73 × 45 cm; located at Galerie Bing in 1929. This investigation notes a possible Pfannstiel duplication of numbers 154–155 between this work and the frontal Margherita.
This investigation publishes comparative photographs of appearance before and after cleaning, and notes that in some reproductions the window appears blue.
A detail of hair worked with the brush handle is recorded photographically.
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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- MR, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.