Woman portrait (Rosa Porprina)
Oil on paper? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman portrait (Rosa Porprina).
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil and crayon on paper ?
- Dimensions
- 44 x 27 cm?
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani" low left and dated with a game of words (16 Febbr.) and text "Rosa Porprina" on top
- Present location
- Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italia (Inv. no. 8745)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 66 (III) |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 676 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 84 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 5/1915 - 197/15 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 86 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Unknown
- Sold: Drouot, Salle 6 - 21-May-1930 - Lot no. 48 - Rosa Porprina 43 x 26 cm sold for 4.600 FF?
- (iillustrated in catalogue, p. 9)
- Jucker Coll. Milano
- Museo del Novecento, Milano, Italia (Inv. no. 8745)
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.
- Carrieri, Il disegno Italiano contemporaneo,
- Damiani, Milano 1945, pl. 13
- Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946
- Vitali, Preferenze, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1950
- T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951, p. 27
- Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani,H.N. Abrams, New York 1953, pl. 531
- T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1954 p. 29
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 66 (III)2
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 523
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 6764
- Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1972 - no. 845
- Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987 , p. 1326
- Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 p. 377
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 5/19158
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 869
- Parisot - Laure Modigliani, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani / Dessins/Aquarelles Tome III, Ed. Carte Segrete, Milano, 2006 - no. 197/151011
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 184-18512
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 200713
Exhibitions
- Milano, Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946 - no. 26
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1951
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1951
- Bern, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, Kunsthalle, 1955 - no. 51 in drawings
- Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 58
- Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 16
- London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 16
- New York, Modigliani,1972
- Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 22
- Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 18
Notes
there are 4 very similar or almost identical compositions.
The Museo del Novecento, Milan, holds the work under inv. 8745.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Jacques Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1953.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
- Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006.
- Christian Parisot and Laure Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, dessins et aquarelles, tome III, Milan, Carte Segrete, 2006.
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.