Young woman with blue eyes

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman with blue eyes / Young woman.
French: Jeune femme aux yeux bleus.

Date

1917?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

54 × 43 cm? (exhibition size). Parisot catalogue raisonné: 41 × 33 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani in red at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris (Parisot provenance).
2. André Salmon, Paris (1948).
3. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sale 9 January 1948.
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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 209.¹
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 11/1917.²
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Lausanne, Gonthier, 1991.
• Christian Parisot, 1992, p. 203.³
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete / Musée du Montparnasse, 2006.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Garnier, 1960? (as marked in this investigation).
• Paris, Galerie Raffray, 1974? (as marked in this investigation).
• Paris, Musée de Montmartre, 1990? (as marked in this investigation).
• Paris, Musée de Montmartre, Modigliani et les ateliers de Montmartre, 1992.
• Rome, Palazzo Taverna, Bianco Modigliani, Modigliani Institut Archives Légales Paris-Rome, 2010.
• Catania, Museo Civico Castello Ursino, Modigliani, ritratti dell’anima, 2010–11.
• Rome, Fondazione Italiana Accenture, Il Modigliani Institut Archives Légales Paris-Rome, 2011.
• Vitória, Palácio Anchieta, Modigliani — Imagens de uma vida, curator Christian Parisot, 2012.
• Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, same exhibition, 2012.
• São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, same exhibition, 2012.
• Curitiba, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, same exhibition, 2012.

Notes

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

Parisot cites Pfannstiel 1956, p. 37 (1929). This investigation states that this reference could not be matched to a Pfannstiel number that fits both the size and the title.

This investigation records changes between successive published reproductions of the painting.

The same model is compared in this investigation with other blue-eyed women (including Lanthemann no. 218).

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.