Head of a Woman

Identification

Published titles

English: Head of a Woman; Portrait of a Young Woman.

Date

Parisot has dated a reproduction 1918. This investigation allows 1918–1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas (unconfirmed).

Dimensions

56 × 47.5 cm (unconfirmed).

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. Netter Collection, Paris.
2. Étienne Bignou, Paris.
3. Reid & Lefevre, London.
4. Cheever Cowden Collection, New York.
5. Perls Gallery, New York.
6. Howard Sirak Collection, Columbus, Ohio.
7. Sotheby’s, London, Sirak Collection, 21 April 1971.
8. Sotheby’s, London, 1979.
9. Sotheby’s, London, 1980.
10. Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 18 December 2003, lot 9, estimate €2,500,000–3,000,000, bought in.
11. 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.

• J. B. Speed Museum, Sirak Collection, Louisville, 1965, no. 45, ill.
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Carte Segrete / Musée du Montparnasse, 2006, dated 1918.¹

Exhibitions

• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929 (unconfirmed).
• Louisville, J. B. Speed Museum, Sirak Collection, 1965, no. 45.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

The 2003 sale catalogue stated that the work would be included in MR’s catalogue, prepared with the Wildenstein Institute, and that it carried certificates from Christian Parisot (Archives Légales Modigliani) and from Ceroni’s widow.

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.