Woman head in profile
Oil on canvas?— 1906-7 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Woman head in profile.
- Date
- 1906-7 ?
- Medium
- Oil on Canvas
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 29.5 cm
- Signature
- Signed "Modi." left bottom with the text " á P. Alexandre"
- Present location
- Paul Alexandre Family Collection, Paris
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 4 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 16 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 3 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | YES |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 9 |
| Modigliani Project | YES |
| 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
- A. Modigliani
- 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, Paris, 1929, p. 21
- Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonne, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1958 - no. 42
- Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; Suivi des Souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Edizioni del Milione, 1958 - no. 23
- Lanthemann, Catalogue Raisonne, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - no. 164
- Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Milan. 1970 - no. 35
- Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 96
- MR, L'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2002, p.104-105 - no. 27
- Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, 2004-2005, p. 91, pl. 68
- Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 20079
- Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, The jewish Museum, New York, 20178
Exhibitions
- Paris, Modigliani: l'Ange au visage grave, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002 - no. 2
- Milano, Modigliani: l'ange au visage grave, Palazzo Reale, 2003 - no. 2
- Toronto, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004 - 2005
- New York, Modigliani unmasked, Jewish Museum, 2018
Notes
Not in D'Atri papers
Signature:
This painting is visible in a picture from 1913 while Paul Alexandre was moving out from the Delta studios:
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
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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.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- 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.
- Mason Klein, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, New York, The Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 2004.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.