Girl in a polka-dot blouse
Oil on canvas, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Girl in a polka-dot blouse / Young girl with flowered shirt / Young girl seated (with polka-dot shirt).
- Date
- 1919 in Ceroni, Parisot and Patani. Pfannstiel dates the canvas 1917; Lanthemann dates it 1918. This investigation marks 1919 as uncertain.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 115.6 × 73 cm (Barnes). Ceroni and Patani give 116 × 73 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF180).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 149 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 273 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 298 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | no. 13/1919 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 309 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Paul Guillaume, Paris.
- Private collection, Geneva? (recorded in this investigation).
- Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF180).
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, p. 232; later editions 1928 and 1931.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 25.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 149, as Young girl seated (with polka-dot shirt), dated 1917, size given as 116 × 73 cm.2
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965 drawings and sculptures volume, no. 204.
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 273, as Young girl with flowered shirt, dated 1918.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 298, dated 1919.4
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 309.5
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 13/1919.6
- Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, 1993, pp. 224–25.7
- Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy and Derek Gillman, 2012, pp. 186–87, 190, 198.8
Exhibitions
- This investigation states that the painting has not left the Barnes Foundation since it was acquired.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation compares the head with a girl in a related 1918 composition sometimes called The merry schoolgirl.
The documentation assembled for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Lincoln University Press, 1993.
- Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy and Derek Gillman, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, New York, Skira Rizzoli, 2012.