Beatrice Hastings at the piano

Identification

Title

French: Beatrice Hastings at the piano - Beatrice Hastings devant le piano - Beatrice Hastings au piano.

Date

1914

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Pfannstiel, D’Atri: oil on cardboard - Ceroni, Patani oil on canvas )

Dimensions

102 x 48,5 cm ? (Pfannstiel 102 x 46,5 - Ceroni 102 x 48 - Parisot 102 x 48 - D’Atri 102 x 46.5)

Signature

Signed "Modigliani " top left and dated 14

Present location

Unknown Private Collection or lost ?

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. Leopold Zborowsk, Paris
2. Galerie Bing, Paris (1929)
3. Private Collection, France?
4. Sold: Paris, Drouot 12 May 1939 lot 76
5. Private Collection, Milano (Ca. 1946)
6. Unknown location or lost?

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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface by Louis Latourette, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 61
• S. Taguchi, Tokyo 1936
• Hotel Drouot, Paris 12 May 1939, lot 76, p. 25 ( in the auction they say 102 x 48, 5 - canvas over cardboard, it is probably the type of texturated cardboard in many other works)
• Cat. exposition, Modigliani, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946, pl. 2
• Carrieri, Modigliani, 12 opere de Modigliani, E. il Milione,
• Milan 1947, pl. 2 (incorrectly named as oil on canvas and located in Private Collection, Milano)
• Milan 1950, pl. 2
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 302
• Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, mentioned in text p. 753
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 36 (incorrectly named as oil on canvas, 102 x 48 cm and as lost)
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 515
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 456
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 1/1914
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 508
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, 2007

Exhibitions

• Milano, Modigliani, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946

Notes

no. 264 in D’Atri papers as oil on cardboard or cardboard laid on canvas - size 102 x 46.5 signed top right and dated 1915 (clearly a mistake is signed top left and dated 1914) - provenance in Zborowski > Bing 1929

Catalogue of the Auction in 1939:

For this auction the work must probably have an Andre Schoeller expertise certificate very common in similar works from the period.

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.