Young woman in a black dress

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman / Young woman in a black dress / Young woman with a white collar.

Date

1917–1918? Pfannstiel: end of 1917–first months of 1918. Lanthemann: 1917. Jedlicka and the 1958 Charpentier catalogue: 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

65 × 46 cm? The 1958 Charpentier catalogue and the D’Atri papers give 81 × 54 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right, in white.

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. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (recorded in 1929; still cited in 1956?).
2. 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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, pp. 35–36 (end of 1917–first months of 1918).¹
• Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, “Kunst und Künstler, Modigliani,” Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1929–30, p. 393.
• Gotthard Jedlicka, Modigliani, Zürich, E. Rentsch, 1953, pl. 44 (dated 1918).²
• Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1953, pl. 11.³
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 217.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 204 (dated 1917).⁵

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Georges Petit (with Bernheim-Jeune / Bignou), One Hundred Years of French Painting, 1930.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 74, as young woman with collar, first wife of the artist, 81 × 54 cm, dated 1918, illustrated.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 315, as Jeune femme, 81 × 54 cm, dated 1917, provenance Bernheim 1929.

A small colour reproduction of uncertain origin is recorded in this investigation.

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.