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Portrait a Girl
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
adults
individuals: female
people
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<p>By the time Modigliani painted this portrait he had developed his distinctive style of representing the figure. This woman’s elongated neck and stylised features embody his personal vision of beauty. It derives from his interest in a wide variety of arts then considered to be ‘primitive’, including African carvings and Cambodian sculptures, as well as the thirteenth-century paintings and sculpture of his native Italy. He was invited by his friend Gino Severini to join the Futurist art movement which celebrated the dynamism of modern life. Modigliani preferred instead to pursue his own artistic development.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2009</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
23 January 2002 – 30 June 2003
2003-06-30
23 January 2002 – 28 April 2002
2002-04-28
2002-01-23
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (London, UK)
12 May 2002 – 20 June 2002
2002-06-20
2002-05-12
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich, UK)
2002-01-23
Modigliani: The Popular Modernist
Loan-out
25 October 2002 – 6 July 2003
2003-07-06
25 October 2002 – 2 March 2003
2003-03-02
2002-10-25
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
20 March 2003 – 6 July 2003
2003-07-06
2003-03-20
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
2002-10-25
Amedeo Modigliani
Loan-out
21 May 2004 – 29 May 2005
2005-05-29
21 May 2004 – 19 September 2004
2004-09-19
2004-05-21
Jewish Museum (New York, USA)
23 October 2004 – 23 January 2005
2005-01-23
2004-10-23
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
19 February 2005 – 29 May 2005
2005-05-29
2005-02-19
Phillips Collection (Washington, USA)
2004-05-21
Amedeo Modigliani Retrospective
Loan-out
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
5 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2006-05-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2006-05-05
After Impressionism
Collection based display
26 March 2008 – 15 September 2008
2008-09-15
26 March 2008 – 9 June 2008
2008-06-09
2008-03-26
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
1 July 2008 – 15 September 2008
2008-09-15
2008-07-01
National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2008-03-26
Modigliani et le Primitivisme
Loan-out
16 April 2009 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
16 April 2009 – 30 August 2009
2009-08-30
2009-04-16
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Bonn, Germany)
http://www.kah-bonn.de/
2009-04-16
Amedeo Modigliani
Loan-out
23 November 2017 – 2 April 2018
2018-04-02
23 November 2017 – 2 April 2018
2018-04-02
2017-11-23
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2017-11-23
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Exhibition
9 April 2022 – 18 July 2022
2022-07-18
9 April 2022 – 18 July 2022
2022-07-18
2022-04-09
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2022-04-09
Modigliani and His Time: Paris, Cosmopolis and Modern Art
Loan-out
16 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
16 October 2022 – 29 January 2023
2023-01-29
2022-10-16
The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, US)
2022-10-16
Modigliani Under the Microscope
Loan-out
24 November 2023 – 18 August 2024
2024-08-18
24 November 2023 – 17 March 2024
2024-03-17
2023-11-24
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
26 April 2024 – 18 August 2024
2024-08-18
2024-04-26
Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)
2023-11-24
Modigliani
Loan-out
Portrait of a Girl
support: 806 × 597 mm
frame: 992 × 795 × 100 mm
Bequeathed by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> 1933
<p>By the time Modigliani painted this portrait he had developed his distinctive style of representing the figure. This woman’s elongated neck and stylised features embody his personal vision of beauty. It derives from his interest in a wide variety of arts then considered to be ‘primitive’, including African carvings and Cambodian sculptures, as well as the thirteenth-century paintings and sculpture of his native Italy. He was invited by his friend Gino Severini to join the Futurist art movement which celebrated the dynamism of modern life. Modigliani preferred instead to pursue his own artistic development.</p>

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<p><b>Amedeo Modigliani</b><span> 1884-1920 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/modigliani-portrait-of-a-girl-n04723" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04723</span></a> </span><b>Portrait of a Girl</b><span>
</span><i>c.</i><span>1917 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Modigliani' t.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 23 1/2 (81 x 60)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Léopold Zborowski, Paris; James N. Rosenberg, New York, 1921 or 1922; with New Gallery, New York, 1922; with Paul Reinhardt, New York; with Paul Guillaume, Paris; through Bignou, Paris; with Reid and Lefevre, Glasgow and London, 1927; C. Frank Stoop, London, 1928</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Paintings by Derain, Modigliani, Matisse and Others</i><span>, New Gallery, New York, November-December 1922 (no catalogue traced) as 'Tête de Femme'; </span><i>Modern Italian Art</i><span>, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, January-February 1926 (70, repr.) as 'Portrait', lent by Paul Reinhardt; </span><i>Paintings by Modigliani</i><span>, Lefevre Galleries, London, March 1929 (2) as 'Mademoiselle Victoria'; </span><i>Modern Italian Art</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-July 1950 (not in catalogue)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Henry McBride, 'Modigliani' in </span><i>Arts</i><span>, III, 1923, p.53, repr. p.54 as 'Portrait'; Arthur Pfannstiel, </span><i>Modigliani</i><span>
(Paris 1929), appendix p.21, repr. facing p.104 (dated 1917); Arthur Pfannstiel, </span><i>Modigliani et son Oeuvre</i><span> (Paris 1956), No.136, p.99 (dated 1917); James N. Rosenberg, </span><i>Painter's Self-Portrait</i><span> (New York 1958), pp.54-8; Ambrogio Ceroni, </span><i>Amedeo Modigliani: Dessins et Sculptures</i><span> (Milan 1965), No.178, p.43, repr. pl.178 as 'Jeune Femme (Victoria)' 1917; J. Lanthemann, </span><i>Modigliani 1884-1920: Catalogue Raisonné</i><span>
(Barcelona 1970), No.170, p.119, repr. p.205 as 'Jeune Femme, dite "Victoria"' 1916; Leone Piccioni and Ambrogio Ceroni, </span><i>I Dipinti di Modigliani</i><span>
(Milan 1970), No.118, p.93 and repr. (dated 1916) </span>
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<p><span>In the catalogue of the exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1929, this picture was entitled 'Mademoiselle Victoria', but as all the earlier references to it that have been traced call it simply '<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>Portrait</span></a>' or 'Head of a Woman', the identity of the sitter remains uncertain. The painter Moise Kisling, who knew Modigliani, told Mrs N. Huffman that he thought the sitter was an English girl and that this picture was painted as a commission, but the fact that it was in the hands of Modigliani's dealer and agent Léopold Zborowski in 1921 or 1922 would seem to suggest that it was not a commissioned portrait. Joseph Lanthemann, who points out that the same girl appears in another portrait, No.169 in his catalogue, thinks it is more likely that she was just a professional model. Though it has sometimes been dated 1916, it appears to be slightly later in style than the signed and dated portraits of that year, and therefore to have been painted either at the very end of 1916 or, more probably, in 1917. </span>
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<p><span>James N. Rosenberg bought it and a half dozen or more other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> by Modigliani and about the same number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of caryatids from Zborowski in Paris in 1921 or 1922. He intended to keep them as a private collection, but an old uncle, named Max Naumberg, persuaded him to create the New Gallery so that he would have something to do. All the works by Modigliani were turned over to the New Gallery at the original cost. The oils were apparently the first paintings by Modigliani to have been seen in the USA. </span>
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<p><span>What appears to be a preliminary drawing for this portrait, on cardboard and partly in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pastel" title="Glossary definition for 'Pastel'"><span>pastel</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a>, is reproduced in the catalogue of the Modigliani exhibition at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, in 1968, p.25. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.528-9, reproduced p.528 </span>
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults individuals: female people portraits woman