Marcelle

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman / Young woman / Marcelle.

Date

1917? Pfannstiel dates the work to the end of 1917–first months of 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

66.6 × 28.9 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. Sola Collection, Paris.
2. Dutilleul Collection, Paris.
3. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (1954).
4. Larry Aldrich Collection, New York (by 1959).
5. 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.

• Colour postcard, Paris, no. 6242.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 238.¹
• Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958, p. 53.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 188.³
• Doris Krystof, 1996/2000, p. 29.⁴
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁵

Exhibitions

• Nice, La Belle Époque, 1950.
• New York, Rosenberg Galleries, 20th Century French Painting, 1954.
• Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Aldrich Collection, 1959.
• Atlanta Art Association, The Aldrich Collection, 1959.
• Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, 1959, no. 15.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Aldrich Collection, 1960, no. 36.

Notes

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

This investigation records that the painting had not been seen in the original.

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.