Portrait of a girl?
Oil on cardboard?— 1916 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Portrait of a girl?.
- Date
- 1916 ?
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 36.5 x 26.3 cm ? (in the auction cat. 14 x 10 1/4" - Modigliani Project 14 3/8 x 10 3/8")
- Signature
- Signed " modigliani" bottom center/right
- Present location
- Private Collection | ?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | ? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | ? |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | ? |
| Jeanne Modigliani | ? |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | ? |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| MR | ? |
| 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
- Maurice J. Speiser, Philadelphia (Acquired to Paul Guillaume and until 1944)
- Sale: 26-27 January 1944 - Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, Lot 91
- Sold for: 825 USD
- Greta Garbo Collection (acquired from above)
- Private Collection (Inheritance from above)
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.
- Maurice J. Speiser sale catalogue,1944 - Parke-Bernet, NY, Illustrated p. 46
- Modigliani project,
- Newly accepted works, November, 2019 - dated in 1915 and titled Portrait of a girl)
Exhibitions
- Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadephia (previous to 1944)
Notes
This investigation records the work from a colour reproduction published by the Modigliani Project.
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
