Seated girl with dark hair

Identification

Published titles

English: Seated girl with dark hair; Young woman seated, hands crossed; Seated girl with black hair; Brunette seated.

Date

1918 in the principal catalogues.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm (Tate exhibition). This investigation had recorded 93 × 59.5 cm. Wayne gives 92 × 59.5 cm. Klein published 92 × 95.5 cm in error. A current museum page was not reopened for this pass.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Musée national Picasso, Paris (inv. RF1973-81 / MP2017-30). Given to the French State in lieu of tax from the Picasso estate, 1973.

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.
2. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Pablo Picasso Collection, Mougins.
4. Musée national Picasso, Paris (inv. RF1973-81), dation 1973.

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.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 14.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 26.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 267.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 234.⁴
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, no. 75.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 26/1918.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 246.⁷
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, no. 24.⁸

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, collection Paul Guillaume, 1929.
• Paris, Musée du Louvre, La donation Picasso, 1978, no. 26.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 95.
• Martigny, 1990, no. 88.
• Düsseldorf and Zurich, 1991, no. 65.
• Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Ibaraki, 1992–93.
• Buffalo, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 2002–03, no. 24.
• Washington, The Phillips Collection, 2005.
• London, Royal Academy, 2006, no. 24.
• Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2007.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, 2016.
• Budapest and Helsinki, 2016–17.
• London, Tate Modern, 2017–18.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Examined in the 1981 Laboratoire de recherche des musées de France campaign.

Holes are visible at the four corners.

A remark attributed to Picasso, published in this investigation, states that he once painted over a Modigliani for lack of canvas and later bought another from Paul Guillaume. The remark is recorded as published; it is not independently verified here.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.