Girl with Loose Hair

Identification

Published titles

English: Girl with Loose Hair; Young Girl with a Blue Vest; Seated Girl with Loose Hair; Young Girl in Blue; Blonde Girl in Blue.

Date

1919 in Ceroni and Patani. Pfannstiel dates the work 1920.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

99.7 × 64 cm. Ceroni and Patani give 116 × 73 cm; Pfannstiel gives 92 × 60 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right. This investigation asks whether a second signature is present.

Present location

Nahmad collection, Monaco (unconfirmed).

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. Roger Dutilleul Collection, Paris (said to have been acquired from the artist; held until 1930).
2. Sam Salz Collection, New York.
3. Nate B. and Frances Spingold, New York, 1955–76.
4. Sotheby’s, London, 29 November 1976, lot 16, sold £120,000.
5. Private collection.
6. Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1995.
7. Nahmad Collection, Monaco.
8. Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 2007, lot 38, estimate $12,000,000–15,000,000, bought in.
9. Recorded with Hammer Galleries at Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 and TEFAF Maastricht and New York, 2014 and 2019.
10. Nahmad collection, Monaco (unconfirmed).

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. 35, as Young girl in blue.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, pp. 28–29.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 354, dated 1920.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 299, as Girl seated with loose hair (Girl in blue), dated 1919.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 310.⁵
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Tate Modern, 2017, p. 162.⁶

Exhibitions

• Venice, Biennale, Sala XII, retrospective curated by Lionello Venturi, 1930, no. 22, then in the Dutilleul collection.
• Paris, Galerie de France, 1945–46, no. 33.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings from Private Collections, 1955, no. 103 (Spingold Collection).
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1995.
• Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM, L’œil intérieur, 2016.
• London, Tate Modern, Modigliani, 2017–18.
• Art Basel Miami Beach and TEFAF stands with Hammer Galleries, 2013–19.

Notes

Present in the D’Atri papers only as an external photograph, as Jeune fille en bleu, dated 1917–18, size 92 × 60 cm, Guillaume Collection.

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