Identification

Published titles

English: Almaisa seated; Almaisa; Algerian woman.

Date

1916? Other publications date it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas, recorded with a query.

Dimensions

92.5 × 53.5 cm. Parisot and Pfannstiel: 92 × 54 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right, with the inscription ALMAÏSA at top right.

Present location

Private 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. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
3. Netter Collection, Paris (by 1933; not recorded there in 1930).
4. Private collection, Switzerland (1966 or 1970, as recorded).
5. Nathan and Marion Smooke Collection, New York.
6. Sale, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, Smooke Collection, 5 November 2001, lot 14; estimate USD 6,000,000–8,000,000; sold USD 7,152,500.
7. Private collection.

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. 26, no. 3.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 81.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 145.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 132.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 24/1916.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 135.⁶
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁷

Exhibitions

• Most probably no. 17 at Paris, Galerie Berthe Weill /Exposition des Peintures et des dessins de Modigliani, December 1917.
• Venice, Biennale, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, 1930, no. 17 (Netter ownership not stated).
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 34 (Netter Collection).
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 26.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 30 (lent anonymously; dated 1917).

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 34; located in the Netter Collection in 1933 and dated 1917.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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.