Young woman head

Oil on canvas — 1915 - 1917?

Identification

Title

English: Young woman head / Beatrice Hastings head.

Date

1915 - 1917? (Parisot dates in 1917 in the 1983 exhibit)

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

46 x 38 cm

Signature

Signed "modigliani " bottom right

Present location

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano, Italia ( Inv. no. 5081)

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. Guillaume Coll. Paris
2. Keller Collection, Paris (1929 - 1930)
3. Galleria Il Milione, Milano (1930-1940?)
4. La Lanterna Galleria, Milano (1940 -1946)
5. Jesi Collection, Milano
6. (1946-1976)
7. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano, Italia ( Inv. no. 5081)
8. Donation by Emilio and Maria Jesi to the Museum in 1976

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, 1929¹
• Exh. Cat. Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, Milano, 1946, pl. 7
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, no. 84²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 47³
• 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. 92⁵
• Valsecchi, Arte Moderna a Milano, Ed. Cariplo, Milano, 1976, p. 116
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 317
• Modigliani J. Racconta Modigliani, Ed. Graphis. 1984 p. 229⁶
• Parisot, Modigliani, Ed. Graphis Arte, 1988, p. 149
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 6/1915⁷
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94, no. 95⁸
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 105 (dated 1917)⁹
• Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 182-183¹⁰
• 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. 16, p. 50¹³

Exhibitions

• Milano, Associazione fra gli amatori e i cultori delle arti figurative contemporanee, 1946 - no. 7 (dated 1916-17)
• Bruxelles, Modigliani. Palais des beaux-arts, 1950 - no. 66
• Amsterdam, Modigliani, Stedelijk Museum, 1950
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - n º 45 (?)
• Marseille, Modigliani, Musée Cantini, 1958 - no. 31 (dated 1918)
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 26
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - no. 14
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 12
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 12
• Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 26
• Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 26
• Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - no. 18
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002- no. 21
• Genova, Modigliani, Palazzo Duccale, 2017

Notes

Not in D' Atri papers ?

Signature:

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

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

This painting was present at the

Genova Exhibit

of the forgery scandal in 2017and was damaged in the press exhibited as a fake.

Image of the painting at the

usual location in Pinacoteca di Brera in 2017:

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

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, holds the work as Testa di giovane donna, inventory 5081, oil on canvas, 46 × 38 cm, from the Emilio and Maria Jesi donation (1976).