Beatrice Hastings with feathered hat

Oil on canvas? — 1915 ?

Identification

Title

English: Beatrice Hastings with feathered hat. French: Madame Pompadour.

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61.1 x 50.2 cm (Klein 60.6 x 49.5)

Signature

Signed "modigliani" bottom right - text "Madam / Pompadour / 1915" center left

Present location

Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, USA (Inv. no. 1938.217)

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 (1916-1929)
2. Mme. Lederlin (1933)
3. Galerie Charpentier (1933 - Lot 134)
4. Valentine-Dudensing Gallery, New York, Dec 1937)
5. Joseph Winterbotham Collection, Chicago (Acquired from above)
6. Sold to the Art Institute (1938)
7. Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, USA (Inv. no. 1938.217)

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.

• Guillaume, Les arts à Paris, December 15, 1918, n.p., no. 3
• Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 7, no. 5¹
• Sweet, “Modigliani and Chirico,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 33, no. 6 (1939), pp. 90–91
• Art Institute of Chicago. The Winterbotham Collection (Chicago, 1947), illus. P 31.
• Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani. Braun, Paris, 1951, p. 14
• San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, p. 6²
• Jedlicka, Modigliani, E. Rentsch, Zürich, 1953 , p. 82, pl. 10³
• Descargues, Amedeo Modigliani, Braun, Paris, 1954, pl. 14
• Lipchitz, Amedeo Modigliani, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1954, pl. 15⁴
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 43⁵
• Art and Activities 42, no. 2 (October 1957), p. 26
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958, p. 47, no. 42⁶
• Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 56
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 315, 431
• Salmon, Modigliani: A Memoir, New York, 1961, p. 129
• Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo 84, no. 55 (September 1966), p. 225
• Diehl, Modigliani, Ed. Flamarion, Paris, 1969, p. 37⁷
• Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse, Milan, 1969, pl. IX
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 74⁸
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 57⁹
• Fifield. Modigliani. New York, 1976, p. 184
• Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse, Milan, 1976, pl. 9
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, pp. 109-110, 112- no. 75¹⁰
• Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980¹¹
• no. 10
• Musée Saint-Georges, Modigliani (Liege, Belgium, 1980), f. 26
• Speyer /Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings , Chicago, 1980, p. 57, pl. 2G12
• Carneiro, Modigliani: Paris redescobre o gênio maldito, La Manchete, 1981, pp. 82–85, 87
• Prat, Amedeo Modigliani: Justice pour un prince ivrogne, Le Figaro 1981, pp. 104, 106
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 206
• Hall, Modigliani, Phaidon, Oxford, 1984, f. 23¹²
• Hoog, Catalogue of the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris
• 1984, p. 144
• Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, pp. 42, 155¹³
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Chicago, 1986), p. 30
• Catalogue National Museum Tokyo, 1985
• Catalogue Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985
• Benezra, “A Study in Irony: Modigliani’s Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz,” Museum Studies 12, no, 2 (Art Institute of Chicago: 1986), p. 196⁴
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 131¹⁴
• Parisot, Modigliani (Livorno, 1988), ill. opp. p. 130
• Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 p.78 - no. 30¹⁵
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - no. 19/1915¹⁶
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 61¹⁷
• Parisot, Modigliani, Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, p. 61¹⁸
• Shiff, A Line as Clear and Tensile as a Lightning Flash, Smithsonian 24, no. 10 (January 1994), pp. 64–73, 65
• Kruszynski. Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes. Munich, 1996, pp. 54, 59, 119
• Wayne, Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse, Abrams-Albright-knox gallery, New York, 2002, pp.65,67,69 - 202,203¹⁹
• MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, no. 35, pp. 214,215²⁰
• Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 120, pl. 35²¹
• Antonova, Modigliani, exh. cat. (Krasnaja Ploscad', 2007), pp. 52; 53, cat. 28
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007²²
• Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 22, p. 56²³
• Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 85²⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, 1re exposition: Kisling, Matisse, Modigliani, Ortiz de Zarate, Picasso, Sculptures négres, Lyre et Palette, November 19–December 5, 1916 - no. 13
• Paris, Exposition peintres d’aujourd’hui,Galerie Paul Guillaume, December 15–23, 1918 - no. 26
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, p. 31
• Dallas, The Winterbotham Collection of Twentieth-Century European Paintings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1949
• Cleveland, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art,1951
• New York, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, 1951
• Coral Gables, Fla., Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting, University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, 1952 - no. 28
• Athens, Georgia, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting, University of Georgia, 1952 - no. 28
• Palm Beach, Fla, Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, Society of the Four Arts, 1954 - no. 10
• Coral Gables, Fla., Amedeo Modigliani 1884–1920, University of Miami, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, 1954 - no. 11
• Houston, Modigliani, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1954 - no. 5
• Cincinnati, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Contemporary Arts Center, 1959 - no. 9
• Chicago, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, The Arts Club, 1959
• Milwaukee, Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Center, 1959
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 9
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 9
• Tokyo ,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse, Daimaru, 1979 - no. 6
• Osaka,Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse , Daimaru, 1979 - no. 6
• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981 - no. 26
• Leningrad, Delacroix to Matisse, Hermitage Museum, 1988 - no. 49
• Moscow, Delacroix to Matisse, Pushkin Museum, 1988 - no. 49
• Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - no. 20
• Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991 - no. 20
• Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 35
• New York, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004
• Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
• Washington D.C., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Phillips Collection, 2005
• Moscow, Meeting Modigliani, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 2007 - no. 28
• London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018

Notes

no. 208 in D'Atri files - dated 1915 - located in Paul Guillaume 1929

Signature of the painting:

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

The Art Institute of Chicago confirms Madam Pompadour (1915), oil on canvas, 61.1 × 50.2 cm, inv. 1938.217, Joseph Winterbotham Collection. Inscribed and dated “Madam / Pompadour / 1915”.

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