Identification

Published titles

English: Seated Woman with Hands Crossed; Mme Heyrand.
French: Madame A. Eyraud-Vaillant; Madame Eyraud.

Date

Dated 1919.

Medium

Recorded as oil on canvas, unconfirmed.

Dimensions

99 × 63.5 cm in this investigation, unconfirmed. Patani and Ceroni record 100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection. Richard Nagy Ltd, London, is mentioned as a possible intermediary (unconfirmed).

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. Unknown before the sitter’s family.
2. Eyraud Collection, Paris.
3. Nauman Collection, Caracas.
4. Possibly Richard Nagy Ltd, London.
5. 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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 410, as Seated Woman with Hands Crossed — Mme Heyrand, dated 1919.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni, Rizzoli 1970 and French 1972, as Madame Eyraud, dated 1919, size 100 × 65 cm.²
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 344, as Madame Eyraud, dated 1919, size 100 × 65 cm.³
• Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, p. 135, no. 48.⁴

Exhibitions

• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 48.
• Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 121.

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.