Woman bust

Oil on canvas — 1907 (Ceroni, Patani 1908)

Date1907 (Ceroni, Patani 1908)
MediumOil on Canvas
Size58 x 55 cm (Pfannstiel, Patani, Ireson 57 x 55 - Ceroni 56 x 55)
CollectionVilleneuve-d'Ascq, Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille Métropole, France (Inv. no. 979.4.103 )
SignatureSigned "Modigliani" center left bottom
Investigation27

Identification

Title
English: Woman bust - woman with hat.
Date
1907 (Ceroni, Patani 1908)
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions
58 x 55 cm (Pfannstiel, Patani, Ireson 57 x 55 - Ceroni 56 x 55)
Signature
Signed "Modigliani" center left bottom
Present location
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille Métropole, France (Inv. no. 979.4.103 )

Catalogue numbers

Compiler Number
Arthur Pfannstielno. 3
Joseph Lanthemannno. 18
Ambrogio Ceronino. 6
Jeanne ModiglianiYES
Christian Parisot2/1908
Osvaldo Patanino. 10
Modigliani Project?
MRYES
Modigliani Research ProjectYES

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

  1. Paul Guillaume, Paris
  2. Paul Alexandre, Paris
  3. Roger Dutilleul, Paris (1946-1956 in exchange with Alexandre for portrait Maurice Drouard)
  4. Jean Masurel Collection (1956- 1979)
  5. Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille Métropole, France (Inv. no. 979.4.103 )
  6. Donated to Public Collections of France - Jean Masurel Collection 1979

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.

Exhibitions

Notes

LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne) confirms: Inv. 979.4.103, oil on canvas, 57 × 55 cm, 1908, signed lower left “Modigliani”. Donation Geneviève and Jean Masurel, 1979 (from Roger Dutilleul, previously Paul Alexandre). Title variants include “Buste de jeune femme” / “Tête de femme au chapeau”.

Not in D' Atri files

signature:

Image of the painting framed at the Lille exhibit in 2016:

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

woman bust amedeo modigliani
woman bust amedeo modigliani
signature
signature
woman bust at the lille exhibit in 2016
woman bust at the lille exhibit in 2016

Footnotes

  1. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
  2. Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
  3. Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: Peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
  4. Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani: Man and Myth, New York, Orion Press, 1958.
  5. Jeanne Modigliani, Modigliani sans légende, Paris, Gründ, 1961.
  6. Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
  7. Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
  8. Carol Mann, Modigliani, London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.
  9. Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, ACR, 1987.
  10. Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
  11. Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
  12. Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992.
  13. Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani: catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
  14. Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.
  15. Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, Modigliani, London, Tate Modern / Skira Rizzoli, 2017.