Beatrice Hastings Head
Oil on cardboard? — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Beatrice Hastings Head.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard ? (Pfannstiel say canvas, auction cardboard?)
- Dimensions
- 35 x 26.5 cm ?
- Signature
- "MODIGLIANI" in bottom right (Pfannstiel say Signed bottom right and inscribed "BEATRICE") ?
- Present location
- Private Coll.?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 72 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 64 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 65 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 29/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | YES |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Private Coll. Paris
- (1929)
- Jucker Collection, Milano (there in 1949)
- Maurice Goldman Coll. London
- Sold Sotheby's, London - Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part I, 29th November 1988, Lot 60 Sold for 580.000 GBP
- Private Coll. ?
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 présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 111
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 722
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965, p. 163
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 643
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 65 (35 x 27 cm - Study for a woman head)4
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 29/19155
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-946
Exhibitions
- Mostra d'arte contemporanea (40 anni d'arte Italiana): mostra degli artisti Siciliani, Catania, Palermo, February-April, 1949 - no. 26
- Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 ?
Notes
D´Atri files no. 284, dated in 1916, size 55 x 26.5 cm and located in Private Collection 1929
There is a very similar composition:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.