Woman with loose hair or fillette à la chevelure

Identification

Title

French: Woman with loose hair or fillette à la chevelure.

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Pfannstiel: canvas - Ceroni : canvas - Parisot. canvas - Sotheby's: Oil on paper laid down on cradled panel)

Dimensions

42.5 x 32.5 cm (Pfannstiel 54.5 x 45.5 - Ceroni 55 x 46 )

Signature

"modigliani"bottom right in red

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris
2. Karl Nathan, New York
3. Sale: Sotheby’s, London, June 30, 1975, lot 43
4. Kurt Adler (and sold: Sotheby’s, London, June 30, 1981, lot 43)
5. Galleria dello Scudo, Verona ( 188?)
6. Sale: Sotheby’s, London, June 27, 1989, lot 34
7. Private Coll.
8. Sale Sotheby's
9. Impressionist & Modern art evening sale - New York | 14 November 2016 - Lot 15
10. Estimate USD 2,000,000 - USD 3,000,000 - Sold: 3,132,500 USD
11. Private Collection Verona, Italy?

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. 8, no. 7¹
• Basler, Modigliani. Editions G. Cres, Paris, 1931, pl. 10
• Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936-XIV - no. 10 (dated in 1916)
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 54²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 - no. 165
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 78³
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 91⁴
• Modigliani J., Gli anni della scultura, Mondadori, Milan 1984, p. 99⁵
• Mondadori, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Mondadori, Milano, 1988, p. 42
• Ex. cat. , Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, p, 42
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 75⁶
• Buisson/Parisot/Riposati,
• Modigliani e la spiritualità africana, Rome, 2007 pp. 46-47
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁷
• Parisot, Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné Vol. V, Rome, 2012 - no. . 31/1915

Exhibitions

• Livorno, Gli anni della scultura, Villa Maria 1984 - no. 30
• Verona, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984-1985 - no. 28
• Verona, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Palazzo Forti, 1988

Notes

There is a various artworks similar to this particular composition.

Reconstruction of the Guillaume collections at the Orangerie Museum, this painting is included:

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