Woman with a necklace (Baroness Oettingen)

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with a necklace / The white neck / White collar / Baroness Ettingen / Baroness Oettingen / Baroness H.

Date

1917? Pfannstiel 1956: end of 1917–early 1918. Scheiwiller 1936: 1916. Lanthemann: 1919. Ceroni: 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

56 × 38 cm?

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Lost or unknown. Ceroni 1970 lists a private collection, Paris / as lost.

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 24 January 1921.
3. Paul Guillaume, Paris, reacquired 27 May 1924 (1,653 FF).
4. Private collection, Paris.

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.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte moderna italiana, no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1927, illustrated as Il colletto bianco.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 34.¹
• Adolphe Basler, Modigliani, Paris, G. Crès, 1931, pl. 14.
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, same series, 1936, pl. 14, as La Baronne de H., dated 1916.
• Pierre Descargues, Paris, Braun, 1951, pl. 36.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 206-bis.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 93.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 350 (dated 1919; titled Woman with necklace — Baroness H).⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 206 (dated 1917; private collection, Paris / as lost).⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 211 (dated 1917).⁶
• Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, 2015, no. 14.⁷

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Modigliani, 1922, no. 11.
• Venice, XIII Biennale, Sala XII, 1922, no. 5 (163671).
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum, Les Soirées de Paris, 2017–18 (the painting itself was not present; a black-and-white photograph was shown).

Notes

This investigation is uncertain whether the work appears in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records that no colour reproduction of the painting had been seen.

The sitter is identified in this investigation as Elena Mionchinskaya, later Baroness Hélène Ettingen / Hélène Oettingen, a figure in the Montparnasse literary circle. The identification is reported as published.

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.