Woman with a necklace (Mme Chéron)

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with a necklace / Young woman with a necklace / Mme Chéron with a necklace.

Date

1917? Galerie Balzac 1929 dated the canvas 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

73 × 60 cm? (D’Atri and Pfannstiel: 72 × 60 cm; Galerie Balzac 1929: 75 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani. at top right.

Present location

Private collection or lost?

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. Chéron Collection, Paris.
2. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1926, sold 5,200 FF as Woman with a pearl necklace.
3. Galerie Balzac, New York, 1929, as Jeune fille au collier (Mme Chéron), dated 1916, 75 × 60 cm.
4. Mme Danthon Collection, Paris.
5. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 May 1933, lot 36, as La Femme au collier, 5,000 FF.
6. Private collection, Paris.

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 presumed catalogue, p. 28.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 174.²

Exhibitions

• New York, Galerie Balzac, 1929.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 299, as Jeune fille au collier / Mme Chéron, 72 × 60 cm, 1917, citing the 1926 sale.

This investigation records the same sitter as a woman in a blue dress dated by Ceroni to 1916.

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.