Young woman head

Oil on cardboard— 1915 ?

Identification

Title

English: Young woman head.

Date

1915 ? (Pfannstiel dates in 1916 )

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Pfannstiel oil on canvas - Ceroni oil on paper - R carton marouflé)

Dimensions

35 x 27 cm? (Pfannstiel 34.5 x 26.5 )

Signature

not visible in images? ( Pfannstiel "modigliani " top right)

Present location

Private Coll. Geneva?

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. Andre Level ?
2. Drouot -3/3/1927 ?
3. Bing Gallery , Paris
4. Private Collection, Geneva ?
5. Unknown location

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. 13 (Located in Bing Coll.) ?¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956, no. 83 ?²
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 82³
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 83 - as oil on paper in private collection Geneva⁴
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 180-181⁵
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 20
• Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 -no. 17

Notes

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

Usually experts give to this painting the number in Pfannstiel but it cant be for 2 simple reasons:

1.- Size in Pfannstiel is 34.5 x 26.5 cm (and this painting has a size of 46 x 38 cm)

2.- Pffanstiel say: Signed in top right ( and this painting is signed in bottom right)

Scanning the image and using a gradient filter it does not reveal any clear alteration due to signature only some traces that could be the visible part of the signature or dating in top right corner?

R say this painting is the sketch

for this other:

MAYBE...

Or as he says in his text:

" Face at least anonymous, but immediately recognizable: image or, better still, icone, clear face, ocher pink on a dark background, non-drawing look, which allows all identifications"

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