Woman head - Rosalia - The little Japanese?

Oil on canvas? — 1915 ?

Identification

Title

English: Woman head - Rosalia - The little Japanese?.

Date

1915 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas ?

Dimensions

46 x 38 cm ?

Signature

Signed "modigliani" bottom right

Present location

Private Collection, Switzerland?

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. Colonel Louis Franc
2. Eric Franc, Switzerland

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.

• Galerie Bing & Cie, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris 1925
• Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, page 13, no. 1 ( Size dont match, Pfannstiel say 34.5 x 26.5 cm and signed top right also mentions the work is in the Bing collection, Paris. This could be the origin of the mess) ?¹
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 83 ??? ( Size dont match, Pfannstiel say 34.5 x 26.5 cm and signed top right also mentions the work is in the Bing collection, Paris. This could be the origin of the mess) ?²
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 , p. 167
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 99³
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 72⁴
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 30/1915 (Parisot mention it is no. 83 in Pfannstiel SAY 34.5 X 26.5 cm, signed top right, size and configuration don't match, this work is 46 x 38 and signed bottom right)⁵
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94⁶
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁷

Exhibitions

• Galerie Bing & Cie, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris 1925 - no. 18 titled "Rosalia"
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - no. 23
• Tokyo, Modigliani, Grand Magazin Seibu, 1968 - no. 16
• Kyoto,Modigliani, National Museum of Art , 1968 - no. 16
• Fukuoka , Modigliani, Fukuoka Cultural Center , 1968 - no. 16
• Tokyo, Modigliani exhibition, National Museum, 1985 - no. 48
• Aichi, Modigliani exhibition, Prefectural Art Gallery, 1985 - no. 48

Notes

The work at the Paris Gallery Bing Exhibition in 1925:

In the Archives of d'Atri this work is recorded as "the little Japanese" with a provenance in Khouri (1933)

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