Portrait of a Woman

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Modern Art

c. 1917/19

Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920

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Department: Modern Art

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1912–1922
Medium: Oil on cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed, u.r.: "modigliani"
Dimensions: 55.9 × 45.4 cm (22 × 17 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Reference Number: 1954.316
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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.

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.

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.

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