Young woman in a striped blouse

Oil on canvas, 1917

Date1917

MediumOil on canvas

Size92 × 60 cm?

CollectionNahmad Collection?

SignatureTop right

Investigation1917-w-51

Identification

Published titles: English: Young woman in a striped blouse; Woman with a tie; Young woman.
Date: 1917.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 92 × 60 cm? Size in the 1920 auction: 96 × 50 cm.
Signature: Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location: Nahmad Collection?

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	NO
Joseph Lanthemann	NO?
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 214
Jeanne Modigliani	NO?
Christian Parisot	?
Osvaldo Patani	no. 220
Modigliani Project	?
MR	YES
Modigliani Initiative	?

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

Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Léon Z. (Zamaron?) sale, 9 June 1920, lot 55, as Portrait de jeune fille.
Sale, Christie’s, London, 23 April 1989, lot 30 (sold GBP 2,500,000).
Private collection, Japan.
Private collection, Switzerland?
Nahmad Collection. Shown for sale at FIAC Paris, 2015, Nahmad Contemporary.

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.

Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 214 (dated 1917).¹
Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 220 (dated 1917).²
R. Chiappini, ed., Lugano catalogue, Skira, 1999, no. 40.
Mason Klein, 2004, p. 141, pl. 57.³
Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, p. 87, no. 11.⁴

Exhibitions

Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 40.
Toronto and Washington, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004–05.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, no. 11 (courtesy of Helly Nahmad).
Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, Collection Nahmad, 2019.

Notes

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

Pfannstiel does not list the painting. Lanthemann and Jeanne Modigliani are marked NO? in the source table.

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

Young woman in a striped blouse — Reproduction published in the documentation assembled for this investigation.

FIAC 2015 — The painting after cleaning, FIAC Paris, 2015.

Framed, FIAC 2015 — Framed at FIAC Paris, 2015.

Musée Bonnard, 2019 — The painting at the Musée Bonnard, July 2019.

Signature in visible light and in negative.

Footnotes

Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum, 2004.
Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006.