Bust of a Blond Woman (La Chaux-de-Fonds)

Oil on canvas, 1918–1920

Date1918–1920

MediumOil on canvas

Size65 × 50 cm

CollectionMusée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds

SignatureTop left

Investigation1919-w-70

Identification

Published titles: English: Bust of a Blond Woman (La Chaux-de-Fonds); Portrait of a Young Woman; Bust of a Blond Woman; Bust of a Red-Headed Woman.
Date: MR dates the work 1919. The museum catalogues it as Portrait de jeune femme, 1918–1920.
Medium: Oil on canvas. The Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, catalogues it as oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 65 × 50 cm, as published by the museum.
Signature: Signed modigliani at top left.
Present location: Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Bequest of Madeleine Junod, accepted 1986, from the René and Madeleine Junod collection.

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	NO
Joseph Lanthemann	NO
Ambrogio Ceroni	NO
Jeanne Modigliani	NO
Christian Parisot	YES
Osvaldo Patani	NO
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

Not documented before the Junod Collection, Switzerland.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (donation Madeleine Junod, 1986).

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.

MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 91, pp. 360–361, dated 1919.¹

Exhibitions

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 91.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 63.
Tokyo and Osaka, 2008, no. 58.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2008.
Bonn, 2009, no. 124.
Seoul, Hangaram Museum, 2015.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

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.

Bust of a woman — The painting. Image from this investigation.

Signature at top left. Image from this investigation.

Signature, black channel — Signature isolated in black. Image from this investigation.

Ears — Orange underdrawing in the ears. Image from this investigation.

Footnotes

MR, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002.