Girl with an embroidered collar

Identification

Published titles

English: Portrait of a girl / Girl with an embroidered collar.

Date

1917?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

64.8 × 45.7 cm? (1961 exhibition catalogue: 65 × 46 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Unknown. This investigation records a 2012 loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. L.2012.16, and notes that the work was not then listed in the museum database.

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. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, acquired from Guillaume 7 January 1921 as inv. 22467.
3. G. Bénard Collection, Paris, acquired 16 January 1921, 5,500 FF.
4. Papazoff Collection, Paris.
5. Jacques Lindon Collection, New York.
6. Joseph H. Hazen Collection, New York (by 1971).
7. Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012, inv. L.2012.16.
8. Private collection?

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.

• Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, p. 40.
• Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, 2015, pp. 58–59.¹

Exhibitions

• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 18.
• Los Angeles County Museum, same exhibition, 1961, no. 18.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 29, Hazen Collection, dated c. 1917.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, loan 2012, inv. L.2012.16.

Notes

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

The canvas is absent from Pfannstiel, Lanthemann, Ceroni, Jeanne Modigliani and Patani.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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.