The red head - Tête Rouge - Head of a young woman

Identification

Title

English: The red head - Tête Rouge - Head of a young woman.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni, Parisot oil on paper)

Dimensions

54 x 42.5 cm (Ceroni, Parisot 54 x 42 )

Signature

"modigliani" lower center at left - on Verso " S"

Present location

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France( no. Inv. AM4286P)

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. Centre Pompidou, Paris (acquired 1964)
2. no. Inv. AM 4286 P

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.

• Ponente,
• Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - no. 18
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 53¹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1972, no. 50²
• Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980, no. 8³
• Roy Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p. 28.
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR Paris, 1987, p. 134⁴
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel Verlag, 1990 p. 77 - no. 29⁵
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-9⁶
• Parisot. Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné. Ed. Giorgio and Guido Guastalla. Vol. 2,Peintures, dessins, aquarelles. Livorno, 1991,no. 1/1915⁷
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 201⁸
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.56⁹
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 50, f. 7¹⁰
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007¹¹
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani et l'Ecole de Paris, June-November 2013, pp. 38-39

Exhibitions

• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 15
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1991 - no. 15
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
• Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani et l'Ecole de Paris, 2013 - no. 7
• Pisa, Palazzo d’arte e cultura, Amedeo Modigliani et ses amis, 2014 - 2015
• Torino, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015
• Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016
• Budapest, Modigliani, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016
• Helsinki, Modigliani, Ateneum Art Museum, 2016-2017

Notes

Not in D'Atri papers

Signature:

Another image:

The Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, confirms Tête rouge (inv. AM 4286 P), oil on cardboard, 54 × 42.5 cm, [1915], acquired by purchase in 1964.

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