Woman with a blue blouse

Oil on canvas?, 1917?

Date1917?
MediumOil on canvas?
Size61 × 46 cm?
CollectionPrivate collection?
SignatureUnsigned (Pfannstiel)
Investigation 1917-w-89

Identification

Published titles
English: Woman with a blue blouse / Young woman.
French: Le corsage bleu.
Date
1917?
Medium
Oil on canvas?
Dimensions
61 × 46 cm?
Signature
Unsigned according to Pfannstiel.
Present location
Private collection?

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur Pfannstielno. 163
Joseph LanthemannNO?
Ambrogio CeroniNO
Jeanne ModiglianiNO?
Christian ParisotYES
Osvaldo PataniNO
Modigliani Project?
MRYES?
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

  1. Spierspki Collection, Paris.
  2. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, acquired from the above 9 April 1923 as inv. 23344.
  3. Paul Guillaume Collection, Paris, acquired from Bernheim-Jeune 27 May 1924 (2,314 FF).
  4. Private collection?

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

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

A reconstruction of Guillaume’s office, published by MR during his period at the Musée du Luxembourg, is reproduced in this investigation.

The same model is compared in this investigation with other blue-eyed women.

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.

Woman with a blue blouse
The painting as reproduced in this investigation.
Guillaume studio reconstruction
Reconstruction of Guillaume’s office as published in this investigation.
Related woman
Comparison image recorded in this investigation.
Woman with blue eyes (Lanthemann no. 218)
Comparison image recorded in this investigation.
Parisot, Woman with blue eyes
Comparison image recorded in this investigation.

Footnotes

  1. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
  2. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
  3. Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Amedeo Modigliani chez Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2015.