Elena Picard

Identification

Published titles

English: Elena Picard / Elena Picard with necklace / Young girl with necklace / Red-haired woman with a blue necklace.

Date

1917? Lanthemann dated the canvas 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92.7 × 61.6 cm? (Patani: 93 × 62 cm; Pfannstiel: 85 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Kimmel Collection, New York.

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. Elena Picard, Paris?
2. Galerie Pierre, Paris.
3. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 April 1926, lot 71.
4. Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris (in 1958).
5. Perls Galleries, New York.
6. Sotheby’s, New York, 1 December 1987.
7. Solow Collection, New York.
8. Kimmel Collection, New York.

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. 57.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 226, as young girl with necklace, unknown collection, dated 1917.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 147, as red-haired woman with a blue necklace, dated 1916.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 180, dated 1917.⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 51, Paul Pétridès Collection, 92 × 60 cm, dated 1917.

Notes

The D’Atri papers contain an unnumbered photograph referring to the Drouot 1926 sale.

This investigation records a related portrait of the same sitter known as The young Lolotte (this investigation’s 1917-w-120).

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.