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Portrait of a Woman

c. 1917–1918

Amedeo Modigliani

(Italian, 1884–1920)

Italy, 20th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 94.6 x 77.5 x 6 cm (37 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 65 x 48.3 cm (25 9/16 x 19 in.)

Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.358

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223 20th Century Avant-Garde

Description

Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906. His portraits chronicle the lives of fellow artists and poets, although the woman in this painting remains unidentified. Influenced by African masks and Cubism, he rendered her features as flat, geometric planes. The gracefully elongated neck and nose may also derive from the Renaissance paintings of Sandro Botticelli and Parmigianino, thereby elegantly merging Western and non-Western, modern and traditional styles.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed upper right: "Modigliani"

Provenance

Until 1933

Georges Bénard, Paris ¹

1933

(Bénard sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 9, 1933 (no. 67), sold to G. Bernheim) ²

1933-

Probably Georges Bernheim, Paris, France ³

(Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris, France) ⁴

Until 1951

(César de Hauke, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1951-

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Provenance Footnotes

¹Georges Bénard was a banker and collector of Impressionist works.

²Vuillard's Under the Trees (CMA 1953.212) also appeared in the Bénard sale (no. 90).

³Guy-Patrice Dauberville believes that “G. Bernheim,” the buyer at the 1933 sale, refers to Georges Bernheim, an art dealer who operated a gallery separate from that of his cousin, Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune. Georges Bernheim’s gallery had closed by the early 1950s. A sale of Bernheim’s collection on June 7, 1935 does not include the Cleveland picture. It also does not appear among the list of works confiscated from Bernheim’s collection by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, although a list of works seized from his collection provided by Bernheim to French authorities in 1946 suggests a number of confiscated artworks were not recorded by the ERR. The Cleveland picture has also not been located in any other databases or lists of confiscated works.

⁴The label for Galerie Paul Guillaume is present on the back of the painting.

Citations

Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, gouaches, pastels. June 9, 1933.

Margaret Burgess, letter to Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Nov. 12, 2003, in CMA curatorial file.

Guy-Patrice Dauberville, letter to Margaret Burgess, Jan. 20, 2004, in CMA curatorial file.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 520 archive.org

Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art. Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co, 1968. Reproduced: p. 9: Mentioned: p. 29

Lanthemann, J. Modigliani, 1884-1920, catalogue raisonné; sa vie, son oeuvre complet, son art. Barcelona, Spain: Gráficas Condal, 1970. Mentioned: p. 121; Reproduced: p. 215, pl. 207

Sakai, Tadayasu, and Toshio Yamanashi. Modiriani Ten. Tokyo, Japan: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979. Reproduced: p. 53; Mentioned: p. 107-108

Wayne, Kenneth, and Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2002. Reproduced: no. 23, p. 100

Picasso, Ingres: Paris, Musée Picasso, 16 mars-21 juin 2004 : Montauban, Muśee Ingres, 8 juillet-3 octobre 2004. Paris, France: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004. Mentioned: p. 83

Calvo Serraller, Francisco. Picasso : tradición y vanguardia : guía antológica de la exposición, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, del 6 de junio al 3 de septiembre de 2006. Madrid, Spain: Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104-109

Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. Reproduced: p. 44 archive.org

Exhibition history

Old Masters of Modern Art. The Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI, (October 6-November 17, 1958).

In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Modigliani Exhibition: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse. Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (September 13-October 16, 1979); Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Osaka, Osaka, Japan (October 25-November 6, 1979).

Modigliani. Saint Georges Gallery, Liege, Liege, Belgium (organizer) (October 17-December 14, 1980).

Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2002-January 12, 2003); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (February 8-May 25, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 28-September 28, 2003).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).

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