Young woman with hand on chin (Marthe)?
Oil on cardboard?— 1915 -1917-1918?
Identification
- Title
- English: Young woman with hand on chin (Marthe)?.
- Date
- 1915 -1917-1918?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard (Parisot say canvas)
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 33 cm ?
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani" in bottom left (almost invisible in the image)
- Present location
- Neue National Gallery | , Berlin, Germany Inv. no. NG26/65
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 91 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 104 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | SI |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| 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
- Paul Guillaume, Paris?
- Private Collection Paris ?
- Sale:
- Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 20-21 1926 - Lot 153 as Pensive
- Sold for 1.500 FF (in the auction say carton 41 x 33 signed and dated in the right ?)
- Earl of Sandwich
- Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery London
- Sold to the Neue Gallery in 1965 by
- Roland, Browse & Delbanco from London
- Neue National Gallery Berlin, Germany, Inv. no. NG 26/65
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. 141
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 912
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 1043
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 20074
Exhibitions
- London, The Tragic Painters, Alex. reid & Lefevre, Ltd., 1938 - no. 10 - titled as Marthe - dated in 1918
- Bonn, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, Bundesrepublik, 2009 - no. 51 (as oil on canvas
Notes
the painting framed at the Neue National Gallery in Berlin:
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.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.