Young woman, hand at the bust

Identification

Published titles

English: Young woman, hand at the bust; Seated red-haired young woman; Young Swedish girl; Beatrice Hastings seated nude; Beatrice Hastings or woman with a cameo.
French: Bust of a young woman in a chemise.

Date

1916–19 in Wayne, Klein and Parisot. Pfannstiel and Lanthemann date the canvas 1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

65.72 × 50.17 cm. Wayne: 64.8 × 50.2 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, inv. 1981.126. Gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981. The museum titles the canvas Portrait of a Young Woman, dates it 1916–1919, and records oil on canvas, 65.72 × 50.17 cm.

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. Paul Guillaume files (this investigation; no stock number given).
3. Marcel Bernheim Collection, Paris (by 1930).
4. Galerie Bing, Paris.
5. Private collection, Paris.
6. Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York (stock no. NOS8035).
7. Dallas Museum of Art, inv. 1981.126. Gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.

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.

• Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926.
• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 25.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 44.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 272, dated 1918.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 276, dated 1918.⁴
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, p. 92.⁵
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 37, fig. 16.⁶
• MR, Le silence éternel, 2008, p. 142 (mentioned as by Modigliani).

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani, 1930, no. 32.
• Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Du XVe au XXe siècle, 1931.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La femme 1800–1930, 1948, no. 62.
• Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Peintres de portraits, 1952, no. 41, as La jeune Suédoise.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects, 1978, no. 87.
• Düsseldorf / Zurich, 1991, no. 78.
• Buffalo / Fort Worth / Los Angeles, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, 2002–03, no. 15.
• Toronto / Washington, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004–05.
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Modigliani y su tiempo, 2008.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 78.
• Villeneuve d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.
• Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016.
• Helsinki, Ateneum, 2016–17.

Notes

This investigation does not record a firm entry in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records holes at the four corners, two of them covered by restoration.

This investigation records a related lost canvas titled Beatrice Hastings or woman with a cameo, dated 1917, and several related red-haired chemise compositions.

Not included in Ceroni or Patani.

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