Identification

Published titles

English: Woman in a white shirt; Woman with white shawl; The yellow corset.
French: Femme au corsage blanc; Femme au manteau blanc.
Italian: Il corsetto paglierino.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

55 × 38 cm. Pfannstiel, Parisot and MR: 55 × 37 cm. The 1920 Zamaron sale: 55 × 39 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right. An infrared image published in this investigation is recorded as reading MODGLIAINI. Reverse not recorded as seen.

Present location

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, inv. 7969. Acquired 1971 from the Torcuato Di Tella Collection. This investigation notes that the work was not on display in April 2019.

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?
2. Léon Zamaron Collection, Paris.
3. Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Zamaron collection, 9 June 1920, lot 54 (as a woman’s head).
4. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1929).
5. Torcuato Di Tella Collection, Buenos Aires (until 1971).
6. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, inv. 7969, acquired 1971.

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, p. 32.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 197.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 222.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 204.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 24/1917.⁵

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922, no. 3.
• Venice, XIII Biennale, 1922, no. 8, as Il corsetto paglierino.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, 1929.
• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, 1992–93, no. 24.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 32.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 66; Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 46.

Notes

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

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Two sides are recorded; the remainder is described as covered by restoration or cleaning.

An infrared image published in this investigation is described as showing a scarce design, a precise underdrawing and a small correction in the shoulder line. Swirls of the brush next to the shoulders are noted as common in the published oeuvre.

This investigation compares the present surface with the 1920 Zamaron sale illustration and records a change in the red contour lines, attributed there to a strong cleaning.

This pass did not close inv. 7969 on the public page of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. The canvas published there as Buste de femme, inv. 2701, 73 × 50 cm, is a different work. The Buenos Aires location and inventory number in this file are left as published and unconfirmed.

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