Jeanne Hébuterne, half turned to the right

Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne, half turned to the right; Jeanne Hébuterne half turned to the right; Head of Jeanne Hébuterne; Young woman with red hair; The wife of the artist.

Date

1918, unconfirmed.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed.

Dimensions

46 × 29 cm, unconfirmed.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right. Pfannstiel recorded the signature at top right.

Present location

Netter Collection, Paris?

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. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1929).
3. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris (by 1930?).

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 50.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 302, as Mme Hébuterne (Jeanne), dated 1918–early 1919; signature position recorded as incorrect in this investigation.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 85.³
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 331, as Young girl (Jeanne Hébuterne), dated 1918.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 222, dated 1918.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 5/1918.⁶
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 231, dated 1918.⁷
• R. Chiappini (ed.), Lugano exhibition catalogue, 1999, no. 47. This investigation notes that the same text was reused in Luxembourg 2002.
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 79.⁸
• MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012.⁹

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Modigliani, 1933, no. 68, as La femme du peintre, dated 1919.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Amedeo Modigliani, 1934, no. 59.
• Paris, Galerie de France, Modigliani peintures, 1945–46, no. 16.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Amedeo Modigliani, 1999, no. 47.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, 2002, no. 79.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, same exhibition, 2003, no. 55.
• Tokyo / Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 49.
• Paris, Pinacothèque, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, the Netter Collection, 2017–18.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, same collection, 2019–20.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 68, as La femme du peintre (Hébuterne), dated 1919, 46 × 28 cm; Netter Collection, 1933.

This investigation records holes at the four corners, all of them half covered.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation groups this head with two related small Jeanne Hébuterne canvases of similar size.

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