Portrait of a Woman by Amedeo Modigliani
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Portrait of a Woman

Amedeo Modigliani · c. 1917/19

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Galerie Zborowski, Paris, probably acquired directly from the artist. Bernheim Jeune, Paris, before 1929 [Pfannstiel, 1929]. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, by 1936 [this and the following according to Winterbotham Collection inventory, Oct. 2, 1936, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878–1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vt., by Oct. 2, 1936; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Chez MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Modigliani, February 7–March 21, 1922, n.p., cat. 13, as Le corsage bleu.
  • New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Braque, Pascin, Modigliani, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Soutine, Friesz, Laurencin, Sorine, and Soudeikine, November 5–26, 1927, n.p., cat. 16, as Head of a Girl.
  • Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9–31, 1936, cat. 27, as Girl.

Literature

Published references

  • Chez MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Modigliani exh. cat. (Paris, Bernehim-Jeune, 1922), n.p., cat. 13, as Le corsage bleu.
  • Reinhardt Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Braque, Pascin, Modigliani, Dufy, Utrillo, Vlaminck, Soutine, Friesz, Laurencin, Sorine, and Soudeikine exh. cat. (New York: Reinhardt Galleries, 1927), n.p., cat. 16, as Head of a Girl.
  • Pfannstiel, Arthur, Modigliani: L'art et la vie (Paris, 1929), pp. 14–15, as Femme au corsage bleu.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1936), cat. 27, as Girl.
  • Descargues, Pierre, Modigliani (Paris, 1951), pl. 25 (ill.).
  • Pfannstiel, Arthur, Modigliani et son oeuvre (Paris, 1956), p. 85, no. 94, as Femme au corsage bleu, fin 1915, début 1916.
  • Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 57–58, pl. 3A4, as Portrait of a Woman, c. 1917-19.

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