Identification

Title

Beatrice Hastings in a checkered shirt / Beatrice Hastings in a plaid shirt / La robe à carreaux.

Date

1916?
The painting is signed and dated 1916.
Lanthemann dates it 1915 and notes that the last digit is poorly visible.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

63 × 46 cm, recorded with a query. Pfannstiel: 64 × 46 cm. Parisot and Ceroni: 65 × 46 cm. The Modigliani Project: 64.8 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right and dated 1916.

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris (1918).
2. Pfannstiel records Bernheim-Jeune ownership in 1929.
3. Mr Schubert, Grasse (by 1945).
4. Galerie David Garnier, Paris (acquired 1958).
5. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired 1958; until at least 1981).
6. Private collection, Switzerland.
7. Hester Diamond, New York (1983).
8. Acquavella Galleries, New York.
9. John C. Whitehead Collection, New York (acquired through Achim Moeller Fine Art, 1983; until 2015).
10. Christie’s, New York, 14 May 2015, sale 3736, lot 26 (estimate USD 7,000,000–10,000,000; sold USD 16,069,000).
11. 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.

• Waldemar George, “Modigliani,” L’Amour de l’art, 1925, p. 384, no. 1 (titled Portrait de fillette).
• Waldemar George, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1929, p. 144 (titled La robe à carreaux).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 10, pl. 23.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, p. 79, no. 69.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, p. 50, no. 57.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, p. 111, no. 66.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, p. 93, no. 109.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 10/1916.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 113.⁷
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 72, no. 24.⁸
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 85, no. 8.⁹
• Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, p. 86, no. 10.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 32.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 36.
• Buffalo, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 2002–2003, no. 8.
• Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, 2006, no. 18.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 10.

Notes

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation publishes an installation photograph at Sutton Place, New York, while the work was in the Whitehead Collection (c. 2014), and a reframed view from the 2015 New York sale.

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.