Bust of a Red-Headed Woman

Identification

Published titles

English: Bust of a Red-Headed Woman; Portrait of a Woman.

Date

MR dates the work to the first days of 1919.

Medium

Oil on cardboard (MR). Wayne records oil on millboard, that is the same support under another name.

Dimensions

66 × 51 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. Paul Guillaume (archived as L835).
2. Private collection (acquired from Guillaume in 1929).

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. 89, pp. 356–357, dated 1919.¹
• Kenneth Wayne, Newly-Accepted Works, Modigliani Project website, 2020.

Exhibitions

• San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Palace of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 689.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 89.
• Tokyo, National Art Center, and Osaka, National Museum of Art, 2008, no. 54.

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.