Identification

Title

English The Pretty Housewife.
French: La Jolie ménagère.

Date

1915

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

110.5 x 49.8 cm (Parisot 110 x 50 )

Signature

Signed "modigliani" top right and the text "LA JOLIE MENAGERE" in top left

Present location

Barnes Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Inv. no. BF327)

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. A. Barnes, Merion Pennsylvania, Ca. 1923
3. / Barnes Foundation
4. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia, USA (Inv. no. BF327)

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.

• Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. Merion, Pa.: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1923, p. 71
• Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. Merion, Pa.: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1925, 347.
• Einstein, Die Kunst des XXen Jahrhunderts, Propyläen-verlag, Berlin 1926-40, p. 233
• Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 9 - no. 5¹
• Basler, Modigliani. Editions G. Cres, Paris, 1931, pl. 4
• Einstein, Die Kunst des XXen Jahrhunderts, Propyläen-verlag, Berlin 1931, p. 296
• Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1932, pl. 3
• Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milano, 1936, pl.2
• Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8 Amedeo Modigliani, U. Hoepli Ed. Milan, 1942 , pl. 2
• Navon, Areyah, Goldberg, Modigliani, Soutine, Pascin, Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Po'alim, 1944. pl. 3.
• Aprà, Tormento di Modigliani. Milan, 1945, p. 112
• San Lazzaro, Modigliani peintures, Les Éditions du Chêne, Paris, 1953, p. 7²
• Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1956 - no. 59³
• Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958, no. 46⁴
• ed. Amedeo Modligiani. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1958, pl. 42
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 76⁵
• Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - no. 60⁶
• Sweeney, James Johnson. "The Albert C. Barnes Collection." The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department 3, no. 2, 1972, p. 34, pl. 19
• Mann, Modigliani, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, p. 100 no. 66⁷
• Roy, Modigliani, Nathan, Paris, 1985, p. 66⁸
• Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p. 126⁹
• Parisot, Catalogue Raisonné Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 no. 17/1915¹⁰
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94¹¹
• Wayne, Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002, p. 66¹²
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007¹³

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1922 -no. 1 title la jolíe ménagère

Notes

No further documentary note is recorded in this investigation beyond the fields above. Where sources disagree, both readings are given.