Woman portrait or Beatrice Hastings
Oil on paper or cardboard? — 1915 ? (Klein dates in 1916)
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman portrait or Beatrice Hastings.
- Date
- 1915 ? (Klein dates in 1916)
- Medium
- Oil and pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 43 x 27 cm ? (Klein 43.5 x 26.7)
- Signature
- "modigliani" bottom right
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 667 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 61/16 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 105 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Doris Baker, New York (1951?)
- Perls Galleries, New York (1966 ?)
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.
- T. Soby, Modigliani, Museum of Modern art, New York, catalogue exp. 1951 ( as Portrait of a woman 7 Beatrice Hastings, watercolor and pencil, 17 1/8 x 10 1/2 " - 43.5 x 26.6 cm - lent by Miss Doris Baker, New York)
- Werner, Amedeo Modigliani , H. Arams, New York 1966 - p. 34 pl. 41 (as Beatrice Hastings Portrait, Perls Gall. NY)1
- Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 , p. 71 - no. 232
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 1053
- Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 127 (dated in 1916 and located in Perls Galleries NY)4
- Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, pl. 126 - dated 19165
- Parisot - Laure Modigliani, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani / Dessins/Aquarelles Tome III, Ed. Carte Segrete, Milano, 2006 - no. 61/1667
Exhibitions
- Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951
- New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
- Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - no. 142
- Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 142
- Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
- Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
Notes
Not in D' Atri papers
there is an almost identical composition at Private collection.
Both parisot and R mentions the provenance of "Antique market" Paris with no more explanation.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1966.
- Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
- Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2004.
- 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.