Woman in Blue (Lunia / Jeanne Hébuterne?)

Identification

Published titles

English: Woman in Blue (Lunia / Jeanne Hébuterne?); Lunia; Jeanne Hébuterne; Woman in Blue (Lunia).

Date

Parisot has dated a reproduction 1918. This investigation places the work in 1919.

Medium

Not recorded.

Dimensions

100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection.

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. Not documented before the Katia Granoff collection, Paris.
2. Private collection.

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.

• Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992, p. 151, dated 1918, as woman in blue — Lunia.¹
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani, itinéraire anecdotique entre France et Italie, ACR Édition, 1996 (identification with this canvas unconfirmed).

Exhibitions

• Bern, Kunsthalle, 1955, no. 36, as portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne in the Granoff collection.
• Paris, Musée de Montmartre, 1992 (identification with this canvas unconfirmed).

Notes

The D’Atri papers include an unidentified photograph that the source compiler associates with this work.

This investigation groups the sitter with two other portraits published as Lunia. The identification is not independently confirmed.

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.