Young woman seated (Huguette)

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman seated / Huguette / Jeanne Huguette.
French: Mademoiselle Huguette.

Date

1917? Patani: 1917–18. MR and the museum: 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

91.5 × 60.5 cm? (MR and Patani: 91.4 × 60.3 cm; Pfannstiel: 92 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani. at top right.

Present location

Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto.

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. Bignou, Paris.
3. De Hauke & Co., New York.
4. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London.
5. Olof Berg Collection, Sweden (in 1929).
6. Paul Rosenberg, New York.
7. Spitzer Collection, New York (1963).
8. Vogel Collection, Philadelphia.
9. Private collection, Zurich.
10. Private collection, New York (in 1985).
11. Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto.

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.

• The Studio, 8 April 1929.
• Maud Dale, Modigliani, New York, Knopf, 1929, pl. 25.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, pp. 44, 119.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 274.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 293.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 225, dated 1917–18, as Seated girl (Huguette).⁴
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, pp. 330–331, no. 74, dated 1918.⁵

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 25, as portrait of Mademoiselle Jeanne, Nice 1918.
• Chicago, Arts Club, 1929.
• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1929, no. 21.
• New York, Perls Galleries, 1963, no. 16.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 21, dated 1917–18.
• Tokyo / Nagoya, 1985, no. 86, dated 1917–18.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 76, dated 1918.
• Tokyo / Osaka, 2008, no. 47, dated 1918 (MR).

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 152, as Mademoiselle Huguette (fillette sur une chaise), 91.5 × 60.5 cm, painted in Nice 1918; provenance Reid & Lefevre > Berg 1928.

The canvas is absent from Ceroni.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art (formerly Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art) publishes the canvas as Portrait of a Girl (Jeanne Huguette), 1918, 91.5 × 60.5 cm. The museum states that the sitter is unidentified and is thought to have been called Jeanne or Huguette.

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.