Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne seated in bed / Jeanne Hébuterne in front of the bed.

Date

1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni, Parisot and Patani. Jeanne Modigliani dated the work 1918. MR dated it to the winter of 1919 in the Luxembourg catalogue and to 1918 in a later private dossier cited by this investigation.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55 × 38 cm (Israel Museum). This investigation had recorded 54.6 × 38 cm. Lanthemann gives 91 × 53 cm, which does not match the canvas.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (inv. B01.0855). Gift of Stella Fischbach, New York, to the American Friends of the Israel Museum, in memory of Harry Fischbach. The museum dates the canvas 1918.

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. Private collection, Paris.
3. H. Taylor Collection, New York.
4. Fischbach Collection, New York.
5. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (inv. B01.0855), gift of Stella Fischbach, 2001.

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.

• Jeanne Modigliani, 1958, pl. 55, dated 1918.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 375, as Jeanne Hébuterne in front of the bed, dated 1919, size given as 91 × 53 cm.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 329.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 341.⁴
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 103, dated winter 1919.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 2006, no. 41.⁶
• Yigal Zalmona / Israel Museum, A Room of Her Own, Jerusalem, 2007.

Exhibitions

• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 51 (listed, not illustrated).
• Tokyo, National Museum, and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985, no. 113.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 109.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 103.
• Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, 2006.
• Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.
• Jerusalem, Israel Museum, A Room of Her Own, 2007–08.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2008.
• Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, 2009, no. 102, dated 1918.
• Seoul, Hangaram Museum, Amedeo Modigliani: Legend of Montparnasse, 2015.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Holes are visible at the four corners of the support.

An X-radiograph of another late portrait (the so-called Burgundian woman) has been published with a sketch related to this seated composition.

This investigation compares the dress with other Hébuterne portraits dated 1918 and 1919.

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.