Beatrice Hastings half figure

Oil on cardboard— 1915

Identification

Title

English: Beatrice Hastings half figure.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on cardboard (Ceroni oil on paper)

Dimensions

69 x 49 cm ? (1958 exhib. 70 x 49)

Signature

Signed "modigliani" in lower right

Present location

Mazzotta Collection, Milano?

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, Paris
2. Private Collection or Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milano?
3. Probably Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bolonia, Italia. ???

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.

• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 38¹
• Gindertael, Modigliani e Montparnasse, Milan, 1969, p, 39
• Ponente,
• Modigliani, Ed. Toray, Barcelona, 1969 - no. 16
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 95²
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 77³
• Hubbard, Modigliani and the painters of Montparnasse, Lamplight Publ. New York, 1975, p. 23, pl. 13
• Carluccio, Leymarie, Negri, Russoli, Brunhammer, École de Paris, Rive Gauche, Paris, 1981, p. 205
• Patani, Modigliani. Dipinti e disegni. Incontri Italiani 1900-1920, Mazzotta, 1984⁴
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 124⁵
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - no. 78⁴
• Patani, Amadeo Modigliani, catalogo generale, disegni, 1906-1920, Leonardo Editore, Milano, 1994⁴
• Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani: The Poetry of Seeing, Taschen, Cologne, 2000 (as study for a portrait of Beatrice Hastings), p. 52⁶
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007⁷

Exhibitions

• Roma, Modigliani, VII Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Exposizioni, 1955-56
• Monaco, 1957
• Milano, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, Curated by Franco Russoli, 1958 - no. 14
• Paris, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - ?? (with doubts about the presence of this painting)
• Roma, Modigliani, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1959 - no. 9
• Frankfurt, Amedeo Modigliani, Steinernes Haus, 1963 - no. 11
• Edinburgh, Modigliani, Royal Scottish Academy, 1963 - no. 6
• London, Modigliani, Tate Gallery, 1963 - no. 6
• Tokyo, Modigliani, Grand Magazin Seibu, 1968 - no. 15
• Kyoto,Modigliani, National Museum of Art , 1968
• Barcelona, Modigliani, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de pensiones,Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 19
• Madrid, Modigliani, Sala de exposiciones la caja de pensiones, Curated by Christian Parisot, 1983 - no. 19
• Verona, Incontri Italiani, Galleria dello Scudo, 1984 - no. 29
• Torino, Incontri Italiani, Palazzo Reale, 1985

Notes

Probably no. 87 in Pfannstiel?

no. 274 in D' Atri papers as portrait unfinished of Beatrice Hastings seated size 51 x 33 - dated 1915 and provenance in Paul Guillaume in 1929

Signature:

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

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