Bust of a young woman
Oil on canvas, 1917?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Bust of a young woman / Woman bust / Unknown woman.
- Date
- 1917? Exhibition dates vary: 1916–17 (Lugano 1999), 1917 (Tokyo/Osaka 2008), 1918 (Tokyo 1985; Goyang 2008).
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 78.7 × 52 cm? Lugano 1999 and Tokyo/Osaka 2008: 81 × 54 cm.
- Signature
- Signed Modigliani at top right, in red.
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| 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
- Unknown. This investigation records no chain of ownership.
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.
- No book-length catalogue entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- Tokyo, National Museum, Modigliani exhibition, 1985, no. 112 (dated 1918; 78.7 × 52 cm).
- Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, same exhibition, 1985, no. 112.
- Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Amedeo Modigliani, 1999, no. 30 (dated 1916–17; 81 × 54 cm).
- Tokyo, The National Art Center, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 38, curated by MR (dated 1917; 81 × 54 cm).
- Osaka, The National Museum of Art, same exhibition, 2008, no. 38.
- Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, 2008, curated by MR (dated 1918).
- Hakone, Pola Museum of Art, Finding Modigliani, 2014.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
MR’s inclusion is reported as published in the 2008 exhibitions.
This investigation records a visible-light signature and an infrared image of the signature.
Another painting of the same unidentified sitter is cited.
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.
