Identification

Title

English: Head of woman with earrings.

Date

1915? (MR: 1917)

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

55.5 x 38 cm? (MR: 57 x 34 cm)

Signature

Unsigned?

Present location

Private collection?

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. Unrecorded
2. Dr García Victorica Collection, Argentina
3. Galleria del Milione, Milan
4. Private collection?

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.

• Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, Orion Press, New York, 1958, pl. 32 (dated 1913–14)¹
• Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 136²
• Ceroni & Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 70 (1915 in the catalogue raisonné; later also dated 1917)³
• Lassaigne, Tout Modigliani, Flammarion, Paris, 1982, p. 24

Exhibitions

• Singapore, Permanent Collection and Heritage Gallery, Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris, 2015

Notes

Jeanne Modigliani dated the work 1913–14; Ceroni’s catalogue places it in 1915 and later references give 1917. MR dates it 1917.

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