Girl in pink (Girl with pigtails)

Identification

Published titles

English: Girl in pink (Girl with pigtails); Girl with pigtails; Girl in pink; The pink blouse.
French: Jeune fille.

Date

1918, unconfirmed. Pfannstiel dated the canvas 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

60.1 × 45.4 cm, unconfirmed. Hôtel Drouot, 1928: 60 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan.

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. Georges Chéron, Paris.
2. Terisse Collection, Paris.
3. Dr Devraigne Collection, Paris.
4. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection du Docteur Devraigne, 24 November 1928, lot 67, as Young girl, 60 × 46 cm.
5. Lewisohn Collection, New York (from 1928–29; not sold in 1961).
6. Perls Galleries, New York (by 1985).
7. Kahn Collection, Massachusetts.
8. Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya.

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.

• Hôtel Drouot, Collection du Docteur Devraigne, 24 November 1928, lot 67, pp. 28–29.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, pp. 36, 108.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 222, dated 1917, as Little girl with pigtails.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 328, dated 1918.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 243, dated 1918.⁴
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, no. 65.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 255, dated 1918.⁶
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Lugano exhibition catalogue, 1999, no. 54.
• Kenneth Wayne, 2002, no. 33.⁷

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 10, as Girl in pink.
• Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Modigliani retrospective, 1931, no. 9, dated 1917.
• Cleveland / Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951, no. 54.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lewisohn Collection, 1951.
• Boston / Los Angeles, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 19.
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy / London, Tate Gallery, 1963.
• Tokyo / Nagoya, Modigliani, 1985, no. 98.
• Düsseldorf / Zurich, 1991, no. 68.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 54.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, 2003, no. 33.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 166, as Jeune fille en rose, Lewisohn, 1929.

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records the same sitter in related canvases. Jeanne Modigliani, Parisot, Lanthemann and Ceroni’s widow published a 1917 option; Pfannstiel published a separate 1917 option.

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