Red head woman

Oil on canvas?— 1915 ?

Identification

Title

English: Red head woman - Portrait of a Russian woman - Head of Red haired woman - Beatrice Hastings.

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

46 x 38 cm (Pfannstiel: 36 x 27 )

Signature

Signed "modigliani " bottom right

Present location

Galleria Civica d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italia ( Inv. no. P/1628)

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 Coll. Paris
2. Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1956-60?)
3. Galleria Civica d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italia ( Inv. no. P/1628)
4. Donated by the Comitato Torino'61 in 1962.

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 de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 16¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, no. 105 (with incorrect size 36 x 27 cm) dated in 1916.²
• Beyeler Gallery, Basel 1956, p. 22
• Beyeler Gallery, Basel 1960, pl.10
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 175³
• Pavolini, Modigliani, Union Générale d'Éditions en accord avec l'Unesco, Milano 1966, pl. 8
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 58⁴
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 93 with the title Portrait of a Russian woman and dated in 1915⁵
• Modigliani J. Racconta Modigliani, Ed. Graphis. 1984 p. 227⁶
• Patani, Modigliani. Dipinti e disegni. Incontri Italiani 1900-1920, Mazzotta, 1984 - no. 25⁷
• Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985 - no. 49
• Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 49
• Mondadori, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Mondadori, Milano, 1988, p. 40
• Verona, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Palazzo Forti, 1988 p. 87
• Barilli, L'espressionismo italiani, Mole antonelliana Torini, Fabbri, 1990 p. 150
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 4/1915⁸
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 96⁷
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 67⁹
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 pp. 198-199¹⁰
• Parisot, Modigliani la vita le opere, Ed. Carte Secrete, Milano 2006¹¹
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹²
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 17, p. 51¹³

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - no. 25 ? as La fille Rousse
• Basel, Masters of Modern Art, Beyeler Gallery, 1956
• Basel, The Woman, Beyeler Gallery, 1960
• Liege, Modigliani exhibition. Musée Saint Georges, 1980 - no. 5
• Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983- no. 13
• Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 13
• Torino, Incontri Italian, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984 - no. 25
• Verona, Incontri Italian, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984-1985 - no. 25
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 49
• Nagoya, Modigliani exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 49
• Verona, Modigliani a Montparnasse, Palazzo Forti, 1988, p. 40
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 29
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 -no. 24
• Moscow, Meeting Modigliani, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
• Tokyo, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Art Center, 2008 - no. 23
• Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, The national Museum of Art, 2008 - no. 23
• Torino,
• Isola & Norzi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2012
• Torino, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2015
• Genova, Modigliani, Palazzo Duccale, 2017

Notes

no. 286 in D' Atri papers as Beatrice Hastings - 54.5 x 45.5 - dated 1916 - signed bottom right - Provenance in Paul Guillaume in 1929

Note:

This painting remains untraced from 1929 to

1956 and when it finally surfaces again in Beyeler is by the hand of Pfannstiel with a new name as Woman with red hair,

previously it was known as Beatrice Hastings.

This investigation records that Pfannstiel changes the size on purpose on his catalogue

Pfannstiel was the main purveyor for the Nazi French occupation troops.

( the original size in Pfannstiel 1956 is 36 x 27 and the painting is 46 x 38, but in D atri he say 54.5 x 45.5 it would be interesting to see if the painting has been cut??)

This painting probably has a war crime

story unsolved

Signature:

Detail of the ear where the drawing in color s clearly visible and is painted in color

In the exhibition at the GAM - Isola & Norzi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2012 they showed the X- ray of the painting and talked about the possibility that little Louise portrait was underneath the actual painting, but it's not clear if it is real or just a work for the exhibit.

This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (2 of them covered by restoration)

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

Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, holds the work as Portrait of a Russian Woman / Fille rousse, inventory P/1628, oil on canvas, donated by the Comitato Torino ’61 in 1962.