Red-haired young woman in a chemise (half figure)

Identification

Published titles

English: The young Swedish; Red-haired girl in loose shirt, half figure; Young woman, hand in bust; Young girl with nude breast.
French: Red-haired young woman in a chemise (half figure); Nu Médicis.

Date

1918. Pfannstiel dated the canvas 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Ceroni and Patani: 73 × 50 cm. Pfannstiel: 55 × 45 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Nahmad Collection, London / Monaco?

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. Galerie Bing, Paris?
3. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris?
4. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris (by 1933).
5. Nahmad Collection, London / Monaco?

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. 25.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 49, reproduced pp. 120–121.²
• Jean Cocteau, Modigliani, Paris and Feldafing, 1952, pl. 24.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 239, dated 1917.³
• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, pl. 10 and no. 52, as Medici Nude, 1918, private collection.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 281, dated 1918.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 265, dated 1918.⁶
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 178 (this investigation notes a property caption attached to another similar nude).⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 277, dated 1918, 73 × 50 cm.⁸
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁹

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani, 1933, no. 50, as Femme à la chemise, Netter Collection, dated 1918.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Amedeo Modigliani, 1934.
• Paris, Galerie de France, Modigliani peintures, 1945–46, no. 21, as Jeune fille au sein nu, dated 1918, 73 × 50 cm.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, Modigliani, 1958, no. 26 in the photograph, recorded as no. 28 (printing error noted in this investigation).
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 87, as Nu Médicis, dated 1918, 73 × 50 cm, private collection, Paris.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 50, dated 1918, titled Femme à la chemise (Jeune fille en chemise), 73 × 50 cm; provenance Bing 1929 > Zborowski 1929 > Netter 1933.

This investigation records a related lost canvas titled Beatrice Hastings or woman with a cameo, dated 1917, and several related red-haired chemise compositions (investigation nos. 1918-67, 1918-26, 1918-27, 1918-93).

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