Bust of a girl

Identification

Published titles

English: Bust of a girl / Girl / Girl in blue.

Date

1918. Pfannstiel dated the canvas 1916.

Medium

Oil on cardboard. Pfannstiel, Patani, Lanthemann and Ceroni record oil on canvas.

Dimensions

48 × 31 cm. Patani: 60 × 50 cm. Pfannstiel: 91 × 60 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. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (Pfannstiel).
2. Galerie Paquereau, Paris, 1934 (D’Atri).
3. Private collection, Basel (Ceroni).
4. Eugène Descaves, Paris, then private collection, Paris (Patani).
5. Private collection, Switzerland (Basel?).

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 presumed catalogue, p. 15.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 98, dated 1916.²
• Franco Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Milan, Silvana, 1958, pl. 16.
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 226, dated 1918.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 274, dated 1918.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 236, dated 1918.⁵
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁶

Exhibitions

• Rome, VI Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Modigliani, 1952, no. 20.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 120, marked with doubts, as Jeune fille assise, 48.5 × 32 cm, dated 1918, Galerie Paquereau, Paris, 1934.

This investigation records that the support originally presented holes at the four corners and was later cut in a circular shape at the corners on an unknown date.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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.