Woman seated with a glass

Identification

Title

French: Woman seated with glass - Beatrice Hastings with glass - The absinthe drinker.

Date

1914 ? (Parisot dates 1914 and later 1915)

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni oil on paper - Parisot oil on panel)

Dimensions

103 x 50.5 cm (Ceroni 102 x 51 - Pfannstiel 103 x 50 - Parisot 102 x 51- D’Atri 103 x 49)

Signature

Signed "modigliani" top left

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. Galerie Bing, Paris (1925-29 to 1955?)
2. Coll. Tenoudji, Paris (1958)?
3. Private Collection, Paris
4. Galerie Petrides, Paris (1990)
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.

• Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface by Louis Latourette, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 10, no. 11
• Descargues, Paris, 1951, pl. 24 (as the Absinthe drinker 103 x 50 with the text "Cliche Bing")
• Descargues, Paris, 1954, pl. 24
• (as the Absinthe drinker 103 x 50 with the text "Cliche Bing")
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 322
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 1583
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 734
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 47 ( incorrectly as oil on paper, size wrong 102 x 51)
• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani- 1981, p. 110, no.18
• Buisson, la Scuola di parigi e Modigliani,
• Graphis Arte, 1989, p. 100
• Catalogue, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre
• Gianadda, Martigny, 1990, P. 106, no. 36
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 2/1914 (dated 1914)
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 527
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 58 (dated 1915)
• Parisot, A. Modigliani Jeanne Hébuterne e gli artisti di Montmartre e Montparnasse, Maiocchi Edizioni, Milano, 2003, pp. 126-127
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, 2007

Exhibitions

• Paris. Galerie Bing. 1925
• Bern, Modigliani Campigli Sironi, Kunsthalle Bern, 1955 - no. 2
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de
• Paris, Modigliani, 1981 - no. 18
• Paris, Galerie Paul Pétrides, I989
• Martigny, Modigliani, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990 - no. 36
• Bari, Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne e gli artisti di Montmartre e Montparnasse, Castello Svevo, 2003 (curated by Christian Parisot)
• Caserta, A. Modigliani Jeanne Hébuterne e gli artisti di Montmartre e Montparnasse, Belvedere Reale di San Leucio, 2003

Notes

No further documentary note is recorded in this investigation beyond the fields above. Where sources disagree, both readings are given.