Woman portrait
Oil on paper? — 1915? (Parisot dates in 1914)
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman portrait.
- Date
- 1915? (Parisot dates in 1914)
- Medium
- Oil and gouache on paper over cardboard (Parisot oil,gouache, tint and crayon on paper)
- Dimensions
- 43.2 x 26.3 cm
- Signature
- "modigliani" bottom center
- Present location
- Private Collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | YES |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 677 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | ? |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 54/14 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 83 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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
- Leopold Zborowski, Paris
- Ciulli Collection. Rome (1941)
- Auction: Christie's, London, 25 June 1985, Lot 364
- Woodner Coll. New York
- Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockfeller Plaza, Sale no. 1300 - Impressionist and modern art (day sale), 5 Nov. 2003, Lot 116,sold for: $83,650.
- Restrepo/campanini Coll. New York (acquired in Christie's sale 1300)
- Private Collection
- Auction: FarsettiArte, Prato, Auction no. 164/II - Arte moderna, 1 June 2013, Lot 612, Sold for: €260.000,00.
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 by Louis Latourette, Seheur, Paris, 1929 p. 61 / p. 59 ( Not included in the 1956 catalogue raisonné)12
- Vitali, Disegni di Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1929 , on the cover
- Goldberg & Navon, Three Jewish Artists, Modigliani- Pascin- Soutine, Hashomer Hatzair, Palestine, 1944, on the cover
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 6773
- Patani, Amadeo Modigliani, catalogo generale, disegni, 1906-1920, Leonardo Editore, Milano, 1994 - no. 834
- Parisot Témoignages, 1996, p. 209
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, pp. 188-189 - no. 24 (as "head")5
- Parisot - Laure Modigliani, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani / Dessins/Aquarelles Tome III, Ed. Carte Segrete, Milano, 2006 - no. 54/1467
Exhibitions
- Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 24
- Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 20
Notes
Not in D' Atri papers
Cover of the Lamberto Vitali 1929 edition:
there is an almost identical composition at the Thyssen museum in Madrid:
And also a third option named as portrait of a man in Musée Calvet in Avignon:
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.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- Christian Parisot, Modigliani: la vita, le opere, Rome, Carte Segrete, 2006.
- Christian Parisot and Laure Modigliani, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, dessins et aquarelles, tome III, Milan, Carte Segrete, 2006.