The Russian woman with blue eyes
Oil on canvas?, 1917
Identification
- Published titles
- English: The Russian woman with blue eyes / Red-haired woman with blue eyes.
French: La Rousse aux yeux bleus / Madame Louis Devraigne. - Date
- 1917. Lanthemann dates the work 1916.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 55 × 46 cm?
- Signature
- Signed modigliani. at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection, Switzerland? (recorded from 1985).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 192 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 134 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 176 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 12/1917 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 182 |
| 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.
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Paolo Aosta Collection, Venice.
- Bella Hunter, Turin.
- Galleria dello Scudo, Verona.
- Christie’s, 29 June 1976, lot 268.
- Sotheby’s, 29 June 1983.
- Private collection, Switzerland? (1985).
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; 1956, no. 192.1
- Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, no. 7.2
- Nello Ponente, 1969, no. 35.3
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 134 (dated 1916).4
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 176.5
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 12/1917.6
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 182.7
- Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.8
Exhibitions
- Paris, Galerie Le Niveau, 1937.
- Geneva, Galerie Moos, Artistes contemporains, 1944.
- Milan, Galleria del Milione, 1948.
- Rome, VI Quadriennale, 1952, no. 2 (or 16?).
- Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958?
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 32; Rome, GNAM, 1959, no. 22.
- Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Les sources du XXe siècle, 1960–61, no. 460.
- Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, Incontri italiani, 1984; Turin, Palazzo Reale, 1985.
- Tokyo, National Museum, 1985, no. 79; Nagoya, same exhibition.
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 42.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 306, provenance Zborowski–Guillaume.
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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958.
- Nello Ponente, Modigliani, Barcelona, Toray, 1969.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.