Young woman (Jeanne Hébuterne)

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman / Jeanne Hébuterne.

Date

1917? Lanthemann dates the work to 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

61 × 38 cm? (Lanthemann: 12M = 61 × 38 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. Galerie Charpentier, Paris, auction 1935, lot 6 (reproduced).
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.

• Émile Schaub-Koch, Modigliani, Lille, Valentin Bresel, 1933.¹
• Tableaux modernes, tableaux anciens, objets d’art et d’ameublement, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1935, lot 6 (reproduced).
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 231.²

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition, 1933.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Amedeo Modigliani, 1934.

Notes

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

This investigation records that no colour reproduction of the painting had been seen at the time of writing.

Lanthemann’s published commentary on no. 231 describes the painting as “rich in colors, full of elegance and aristocratic charm” and compares it to portraits by Piero della Francesca. The wording is given as printed.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.

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.