Portrait de Femme

Portrait de Femme

1918
Artist
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920
Born: Livorno, Italy
Work Locations: France
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1966.180
Credit Line
The Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial Collection

Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait de Femme, 1918
Oil on canvas
29 3/4 x 23 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. framed
Denver Art Museum Collection: The Charles Francis Hendrie Memorial Collection, 1966.180
Image courtesy of the Denver Art Museum

Dimensions
frame height: 29 3/4 in, 75.565 cm; frame width: 23 7/8 in, 60.6425 cm; frame depth: 2 1/4 in, 5.715 cm; sight height: 23 5/8 in, 60.0075 cm; sight width: 17 7/8 in, 45.4025 cm; height: 24 3/16 in, 61.4363 cm; width: 18 3/8 in, 46.6725 cm; depth: 1 1/8 in
Inscription
Artist's signature TR "Modigliani"
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art
Known Provenance
(Léopold Zborowski [1889–1932]), Paris; (Georges Bernheim [1893–1963]), Paris, by 1929 [1]; on consignment, (Jacques Seligmann & Co.), New York [2]; on consignment, (Theodore Schempp [1904–1988]), New York, October 20, 1944; purchase, Marion Hendrie [1876–1968], Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1944; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1966. [1] Alberto G. D’Atri register, #314, under title, “Le Col Marin” [2] Seligmann stock no. #7161, under title “Portrait de Femme" or "Fille du Peuple”
Exhibition History
  • Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures, Cleveland Museum of Art, January 30 – March 18, 1951
  • MoMa, New York, April 11 – June 10, 1951
  • Picking for Pleasure: An Exhibition of the Paintings in the Collection of Marion Hendrie, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 19 – April 8, 1954 (work titled “Fille du Peuple”)
  • Amedeo Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18 – May 20, 1959, #25 [work titled, “Gypsy Woman”]
  • The Marion Hendrie Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, June 9 – July 17, 1966, #26.
  • Modigliani Retrospective, Le Musee Saint-Georges, Liege, Belgium October 18 – December 14, 1980
  • Exposition Amedeo Modigliani au Japan 1992-93, #31, Musée Toubu, Tokyo, November 3 – December 23, 1992
  • Musée Daimaru de Kyoto, Kyoto, December 31, 1992 – January 12, 1993
  • Musée Daimaru d’Umeda, Osaka, January 20 – February 8, 1993
  • Amedeo Modigliani, Museo d’Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano, Villa Malpensata, Lugano, March 28 – June 27, 1999, #43
  • Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse, Albright Knox Art Gallery, NY, October 19, 2002 – January 12, 2003
  • Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, February 9 – May 25, 2003, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 29 – September 28, 2003
  • Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, New York, July - August 2004
  • The Phillips Collection, February 26 – May 29, 2005
  • Modigliani, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, February 23 – June 18, 2006, #30
  • Modigliani ein Mythos der Moderne, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, April 17 – August 30, 2009, #97