Identification

Published titles

English: Woman with red hair and a pendant; Woman with red hair and pendant; Young red-haired woman with necklace; Red-headed woman wearing a pendant.
French: La rousse au pendentif.

Date

1918? The 1955 Bern exhibition dated the canvas 1916/17. Lanthemann dated it 1917. A private MR dossier recorded in this investigation dates it 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm? (Ceroni and Patani: 93 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Alicia Koplowitz, Omega Capital Art Collection, Madrid.

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 (1929).
2. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
3. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
4. Private collection, Paris.
5. Belien Collection, Brussels (there in 1955).
6. Sotheby’s, London, 28 June 1972.
7. Sotheby’s, New York, 10 May 2000, sale 7466, lot 27, sold USD 5,700,000.
8. Alicia Koplowitz, Omega Capital Art Collection, Madrid.

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.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte moderna italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1927, pl. 8 (this investigation notes the plate is absent from one edition).
• Waldemar George, La grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Paris, 1929, p. 151.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 49.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 294, dated 1918.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 249, dated 1917.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 230, dated 1918.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 241, dated 1918.⁵
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁶
• Beltrán, Melendo and Curie, Alicia Koplowitz collection catalogue, 2017.⁷

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Modigliani, 1922, no. 16, as La Dame Rousse.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, 1955, no. 15.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Modigliani y su tiempo, 2008.
• Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, De Zurbarán à Rothko, Collection Alicia Koplowitz, 2017.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 200, as La Rousse au pendentif, 92.5 × 59.5 cm, dated 1916–17; provenance Zborowski > Guillaume.

This investigation records a related sketch, Young Woman, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This investigation records related portraits of the same red-haired sitter (investigation nos. 1918-12, 1918-13, 1918-11 and 1917-105).

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