About This Artwork
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920
Portrait of a Woman, c. 1917-19
Oil on canvas
22 x 17 7/8 in. (55.9 x 45.4 cm)
Signed, u.r.: "modigliani"
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.316
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9–31, 1936, cat. 27, as Girl.
Publication History
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani: L'art et la vie (Paris, 1929), pp. 14–15, as Femme au corsage bleu.
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre (Paris, 1956), p. 85, no. 94, as Femme au corsage bleu.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 57–58, pl. 3A4.
Ownership History
Bernheim Jeune, Paris, before 1929 [Pfannsteil, 1929]. Reinhardt Galleries, New York, by 1936 [copy of Winterbotham Collection inventory dated October 2, 1936, in curatorial file]; sold to Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878–1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vt., by October 2, 1936 to 1954 [inventory listed above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.