Woman Bust - Woman head with curtains

Identification

Title

English: Woman Bust - Woman head with curtains.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas ?

Dimensions

45.5 x 32.5 cm (Ceroni, Parisot 54 x 42 )

Signature

"modigliani" low right?

Present location

Private Coll. London?

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. (Ceroni or Lanthemann no provenance)
2. ( if it could be no. 91 in Pfannstiel, dated in 1916 it will have a provenance in Guillaume coll.??)
3. Sale Sotheby's 28 June / 1994 - Lot 30
4. Private Collection?

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.

• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 87¹
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1972, no. 51²

Exhibitions

Not recorded in this investigation.

Notes

This painting has not been seen since the 50´s

(this investigation received the image from an undisclosed source)

Image of the painting framed

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