Girl in a black dress

Identification

Published titles

English: Girl in a black dress; Girl in a black apron seated; Girl in a striped black dress; Young girl in striped apron; Young seated girl with hands crossed.

Date

1918. Pfannstiel dated the canvas 1917. Galerie Charpentier 1958 dated it 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

93 × 61 cm (Patani 93 × 60 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Museum of Avant-garde Mastery (MAGMA) / Vyacheslav Kantor.

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. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris.
3. Private collection, Switzerland (by 1958; still recorded in 1972?).
4. Christie’s, London, 30 March 1987, lot 22, sold GBP 2,400,000.
5. Sotheby’s, New York, 28 November 1989, lot 52, sold USD 7,185,200.
6. Sotheby’s, New York, 9 November 2000, sale 7545, lot 38, estimate USD 8,000,000–12,000,000, sold USD 15,625,750.
7. Museum of Avant-garde Mastery (MAGMA) / Vyacheslav Kantor.

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. 19.¹
• Kunst und Künstler, Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1932, p. 211.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 237, dated 1917.²
• Franco Russoli, Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1958, pl. 7.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 384 (this investigation also prints no. 2914 against this title), dated 1918.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 240, dated 1918.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 252, dated 1918.⁵
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁶

Exhibitions

• Rome, VI Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Modigliani, 1951–52, no. 13.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 37, dated 1916, private collection, Switzerland, 93 × 60.5 cm.
• Moscow, My fatherland is in my soul, works from MAGMA, 2013.

Notes

This investigation marks the D’Atri papers entry as uncertain.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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