Young woman (the beautiful Russian girl)

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman (the beautiful Russian girl).

Date

1917 (Lanthemann and Parisot).

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

65 × 50 cm? (Lanthemann: format 15P).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Not recorded in this investigation.

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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 246.¹
• Exhibition catalogue, Modigliani, Utrillo, Kisling, Nichido Museum / Tokyo Shimbun, 1980.
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné, vol. V, Rome, 2012, no. 51/1917 (no size or provenance).²

Exhibitions

• Tokyo, Nichido Museum / Tokyo Shimbun, Modigliani, Utrillo, Kisling, 1980.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Lanthemann related this canvas to a Chester Dale blond girl that he also dated 1917; this investigation dates that related canvas 1918 and records two further related sitters from 1918.

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

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