Young girl seated, loose shirt

Identification

Published titles

English: Young girl seated, loose shirt; Young woman, loose shirt; Seated blond nude; Young woman with red hair sitting.
French: Red-haired young woman in a chemise.

Date

1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

Christie’s 2007: 81.5 × 55.6 cm. Christie’s 1998: 81.2 × 54 cm. Diehl: 76.5 × 54 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Last named public sale: Christie’s, New York, 6 November 2007, sale 1900, lot 54.

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. Léon Brillouin Collection, New York.
3. M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
4. Jacques Lindon Collection, New York.
5. Max Kettner Collection, New York (by 1959).
6. Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York.
7. Keith Barish Collection, Los Angeles (by 1971).
8. ACA Galleries, New York.
9. Lee Vandervelde Collection, New York (by 1976).
10. Marion O. Hoffman Trust.
11. Sotheby’s, New York, 15 May 1984, lot 46, sold USD 1,000,000.
12. Nahmad Collection? (this investigation, by 1977; sequence uncertain).
13. Hammer Gallery, New York.
14. Tamenaga Gallery, Tokyo.
15. Christie’s, New York, 12 May 1998, sale 8906, lot 33, estimate USD 6,000,000–8,000,000, sold USD 4,482,500.
16. Private collection?
17. Christie’s, New York, 6 November 2007, sale 1900, lot 54, estimate USD 9,000,000–12,000,000, sold USD 16,841,000.
18. Private collection?

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. 24.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 48.²
• Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, 1953.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 280, dated 1918.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 264, dated 1918.⁴
• Gaston Diehl, 1977, p. 56, as Young woman with red hair sitting, dated 1918, 76.5 × 54 cm, David Nahmad Collection, New York.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 278, dated 1918, 81 × 54 cm.⁶
• Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, 1987, p. 178 (this investigation notes that the ownership caption is attached to this work while the photograph is of another similar nude).⁷
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁸

Exhibitions

• New York, American-British Art Center, Sixtieth Anniversary of Modigliani’s Birth, 1944.
• Chicago, The Arts Club, Amedeo Modigliani, 1959, no. 19.
• Milwaukee Art Center, Amedeo Modigliani, 1959, no. 19.
• Cincinnati, The Contemporary Arts Center, Amedeo Modigliani, 1959, no. 19 (Kettner Collection).
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, Amedeo Modigliani, 1971, no. 33 (Keith Barish Collection, Los Angeles, dated 1918).
• Tokyo, National Museum, Modigliani, 1985, no. 93.
• Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985, no. 93.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records the canvas on display in the Modigliani room at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 1933, property then unknown (the caption associates the hanging with the Brillouin Collection).

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.