Woman with white collar
Oil on canvas? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: woman with white collar.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.4 x 38.7 cm
- Signature
- "modigliani " upper left
- Present location
- Private Collection ( Gianfranco Ceres, Bergamo Italy?)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO ? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| 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
- Paul Guillaume, Paris
- (acquired from the artist and until 1926)
- Alfred (Poznanski) Savoir, Paris
- Private Collection, New York (probably acquired in Paris in the 1950s or 1960s)
- Herman C. Goldsmith, New York (on consignment from the above in 1986)
- Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
- Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby’s, London, June 30, 1987, lot 46)
- Joseph Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town (acquired at the above sale)
- The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid and Lefevre), London (acquired from the above)
- Ruth G. Hardman Estate
- Sale : Sotheby's
- NY - Impressionist & Modern art evening sale - 06-May-2004 - Lot 119
- Estimate: 1.000.000 - 2.500.000
- USD - UNSOLD
- Text in the sale catalogue:
- This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Amedeo Modigliani being prepared by R under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
- Ruth G. Hardman Estate ( 2004 - 2014)
- NY - Impressionist & Modern art evening sale - 07-May-2014 - Lot 62
- Estimate: 1.000.000 - 1.500.000
- USD sold: 2.517.000 USD
- As confirmed by R in a letter to the present owner in 2011, Paul Guillaume was the first to own this painting, which he acquired directly from the artist and kept in his private collection for over a decade.
- The work was retained by the police under a tax evasion and money laundering investigation on 26/10/2018
- Gianfranco Cerea, Bergamo 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.
- Florent Fels, Modigliani, Paris, 1926, illustrated pp. 520-521 ?( Not contrasted - L'ART VIVANT?)
Exhibitions
- New York, Raoul Dufy & The School of Paris, Perls Gallery, 1987
- Madrid, Modigliani y su tiempo, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza, 2008 - no. 62 Curated by the Thyssen museum with the collaboration of M. R, Ch. Parisot and a text by Keneth Wayne.
- Tokyo, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Art Center, 2008 - no. 62 ( Not in Catalogue - the catalogue only presents 61 works, so this investigation records this painting was a last time option) Curated by M. R.
- Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Museum of Art, 2008 - no. 21 ( Not in Catalogue - the catalogue only presents 61 works, so this investigation records this painting was a last time option) Curated by M. R.
- Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - no. 49
Notes
In the Sotheby's action catalogue:
Paul Guillaume archives, illustrated ?
Florent Fels, Modigliani, Paris, 1926, illustrated pp. 520-521 ?
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani, Paris, 1929, p. 13 (titled Portrait de fille) - NOT INCLUDED IN THE 1956 CATALOGUE/ Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956
Italian police during investigation for alleged tax evasion and money laundering, requisites the work of Modigliani along with several hundred other authors.
Property of Gianfranco Cerea, owner of Trust Fine Art a Swiss company owner of hundreds of works.
27/10/2018 - Italia oggy
26 / 10 /2018 - Giornale di Treviglio
27 / 10 /2018 - Il Giorno Bergamo
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
