Madame van Muyden

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman in fancy dress.
French: Madame van Muyden; Madame George van Muyden.

Date

1917. The museum dates the work 1916–17. Lanthemann dates it 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

MASP, São Paulo, inv. MASP.00148. Donation by Tor Janer, 1951.

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. Georges van Muyden, Paris.
2. Moos Gallery (recorded 1934).
3. Sale, Moos Gallery, Tableaux modernes, Geneva, 20 March 1937, lot 153, pl. 37.
4. Ernest Ponti Collection, Geneva.
5. Sale, Moos Gallery, Ponti collection, Geneva, 2 April 1938, lot 137, pl. 35.
6. Matthiessen Gallery, Geneva.
7. MASP, São Paulo, inv. MASP.00148, gift of Tor Janer, 1951.

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, 1956, no. 236.¹
• Franco Russoli, 1958, no. 22.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, no. 206.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 311 (dated 1918).³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 216.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 19/1917.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 222 (dated 1917; this investigation notes an incorrect provenance).⁶
• R. Chiappini, ed., Lugano catalogue, 1999, no. 34.
• MR, 2002, no. 69, pp. 312–13.⁷

Exhibitions

• Venice Biennale, 1930, no. 37 (Moos Gallery, Geneva).
• Brussels, 1933, no. 42; Basel, 1934, no. 34.
• Cleveland and New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
• European tour, 1954 (Brussels, Utrecht, Bern, London, Düsseldorf, Milan).
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 22.
• Martigny, 1990, no. 68; Lugano, 1999, no. 34.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 69.
• São Paulo, MASP, Modigliani — Imagens de uma vida, 2012, curated by Christian Parisot.
• Turin, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 42, Portrait de femme, 92 × 65 cm, 1917, Moos Gallery in 1934.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Three corner holes are recorded; the fourth may be covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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