Woman head
Oil on canvas? — 1906-7 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman head / the beauty spot.
- Date
- 1906-7 ?
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas
- Dimensions
- 32.5 x 24.5 cm (Ceroni - Patani - MR states 33 x 24)
- Signature
- Signed "modigliani" bottom right in blue
- Present location
- Private Collection, Paris?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 10 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 2 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 6 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| Modigliani Research Project | YES |
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 Research Project 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 Alexandre 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.
- Pfannstiel, "catalogue présumé" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 19291
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 19562
- Lanthemann, Catalogue Raisonne, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - , no. 103
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1970 - no. 24
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 65
- Alexandre 1993, p. 62
- Monti a cura de R. Chiappini, Catalogue Amedeo Modigliani, Lugano, Skira, 1999
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.102-103, no. 16
- Parisot, Modigliani la vita. Le opere, Carte Secrete Editore, 2006, illustrated, no. 27
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 20078
Exhibitions
- Lugano, Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1999 - no. 1
- Paris, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 1
- Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 1
Notes
Not in D'Atri papers
Signature:
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.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 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.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.