Madame Madou

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman.
French: Madame Madou.

Date

1917?

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

61 × 45 cm?

Signature

Signed modigliani 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. Madou Collection, Paris.
2. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Fawzi Collection, Egypt / Rome.
4. Dervan Collection, Salzburg.
5. Private collection, Los Angeles.
6. 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.

• Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, 1978.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 48/1917.¹
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 226.²

Exhibitions

• Santa Fe, Fenn Galleries, 1978.
• Los Angeles, Guttmann Galleries, 1990.

Notes

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

Parisot records certificates by Pfannstiel dated 7 March 1976, signed in Hamburg, and by Lanthemann dated 18 November 1982, signed in Nice. The certificates are reported as published by Parisot.

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.