Woman with the velvet lace or ribbon
Oil on cardboard? — 1915
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman with the velvet lace or ribbon.
French: La femme au ruban de velours; Le liseré noir. - Date
- 1915
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard (Ceroni, Lanthemann, Parisot oil on canvas)
- Dimensions
- 54 x 45.5 cm (Ceroni, Parisot, Patani Ireson: 56 x 47)
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani" in lower center left
- Present location
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (Inv. no. RF 1960-45)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 196 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 103 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 63 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 8/1915 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 67 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| 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
- Paul Guillaume , Paris
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Donation Walter-Guillaume, 1957 / 1960(Inv. no. RF 1960-45)
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.32, no. 6 (not included in 1956 edition?)12
- Georges-Michel, Les Montparnos, Paris, 1929, p. 145
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 196 - dated in 1917 - with incorrect size and signature position2
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 413
- Modigliani J. , Modigliani sans légende, Gruend, Paris, 1961 no. 224
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965 no. 9
- Ponente, Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - no. 12
- Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 1035
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 636
- O. Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, catalogo generale: Dipinti, Milan, 1991 - no. 677
- Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 33/19158
- Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 1389
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002 pp. 220-22110
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 200711
- Ireson, Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern, Skira Rizzoli, London, 2017, p. 8712
- Marini, Modigliani , Skira, France, 2008 - no. 25, p. 5913
Exhibitions
- Paris, Exposition de peinture moderne, Galerie Devambez, 1920 - no. 59
- Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 - no. 5 title Le liseré noir
- Paris, la grande peinture contemporaine à la collection Paul Guillaume, Bernheim-jeune, 1929
- London, Paintings by Modigliani, Storran Gallery
- Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - no. 26 as femme au ruban
- Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 38
- Villeneuve d'Ascq, L'oeil intérieur, LaM. Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, 2016
- Budapest, Modigliani, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016
- Helsinki, Modigliani, Ateneum Art Museum, 2016-2017
- London, Modigliani, Tate Modern, 2017-2018
Notes
no. 309 in D'Atri papers as Le liseré noir- dated 1917 - 54 x 45 cm - No provenance
Signature of the painting:
Detail of the ears where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted in color
There is a sketch for this work done in pencil in a private collection in Paris, sold in NY Parke-B in 1965
Image of the painting at the LAM exhibit in 2016
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.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961.
- 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.
- Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
- MR (cited here as MR), Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002. Cited from the published exhibition catalogue only.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.
- Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern / Skira Rizzoli, 2017.
- Maurizio Marini, Modigliani, Paris, Skira, 2008.