Identification

Published titles

English: Jeanne Hébuterne Seated in Front of a Door; Jeanne Hébuterne, the Red Shawl; Mme Hébuterne; Jeanne Hébuterne, a Door in the Background.
French: Jeanne Hébuterne devant une porte; Jeanne Hébuterne.

Date

1919. Pfannstiel (1956) and Lanthemann (1970) dated the work 1920; later cataloguing and the Sotheby’s 2004 record use 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

129.5 × 81.5 cm. Parisot records 130 × 81 cm. Ceroni is cited with a size this investigation considers incorrect. MR 2008 gives 42 × 25 cm, which is impossible for this canvas and is a catalogue error.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Last recorded in the Lily Safra collection, London.

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. Early ownership before Léopold Zborowski is not documented.
2. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
3. M. Baixeras Collection, Paris.
4. Mr and Mrs Léon Brillouin, Paris and New York (probably acquired from Baixeras before 1940).
5. Mr and Mrs Sidney F. Brody Collection, Los Angeles (by 1963).
6. Private collection, New York (acquired from the Brodys).
7. Wendell Cherry Collection (acquired 13 March 1981).
8. Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 2004, Property from the Estate of Wendell Cherry, lot 23. Estimate $20,000,000–30,000,000; sold $31,368,000.
9. Lily Safra Collection, London.
10. Last recorded in the Lily Safra collection, London. Mme. Safra died in Geneva on 9 July 2022.
    The present owner (estate or subsequent purchaser) is not confirmed in this investigation.

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.

• James Thrall Soby, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art / Museum of Modern Art, 1951, p. 50; MoMA edition 1954, p. 56.¹
• Maurice Raynal, Modigliani, Geneva, Skira, 1951, pl. 9.²
• Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Abrams, 1952, p. 23; 1953, pl. 16; 1954, pl. 48; 1966 reissue.³
• Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956, no. 355, dated 1920.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958, no. 154.⁵
• Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Abrams, 1966; Milan, Garzanti, 1967; Paris, Cercle d’Art, 1968, p. 158; Abrams 1985, pp. 126–127.⁶
• Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 419, dated 1920.⁷
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970, no. 335, dated 1919, size recorded as incorrect in this investigation.⁸
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Françoise Cachin, Tout l’œuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 335.⁸
• Arno reprint, New York, 1972, p. 50.
• Douglas Hall, Modigliani, Oxford, Phaidon, 1979; 1984, no. 48.⁹
• Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980, p. 201.¹⁰
• June Rose Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987, p. 222.¹¹
• Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991, no. 21/1919, size 130 × 81 cm.¹²
• Osvaldo Patani, Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94, as Jeanne Hébuterne seated in front of a door, size 130 × 81 cm.¹³
• Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani and His Models, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006, p. 131, no. 44.¹⁴
• Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.¹⁵
• MR, Le Silence éternel, Pinacothèque de Paris, 2008, pp. 178–179, size given as 42 × 25 cm (error).¹⁶

Exhibitions

• Madison, Wisconsin Union, University of Wisconsin, 1942.
• Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, French Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1942.
• New York, The American British Art Center, Amedeo Modigliani, 1944.
• Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 44.
• Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961, no. 44.
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Modigliani, 1963, no. 47.
• London, Tate Gallery, Modigliani, 1963, no. 47.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on loan, 1970.
• New York, 1972 (venue not specified in this investigation).
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 44.

Notes

This investigation marks the D’Atri papers entry as uncertain (“Not in 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.