
Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more
Portrait of a Woman
Inscriptions
Signed, u.r.: "modigliani"
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani / Italian, 1884-1920
- Date
- c. 1917/19
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 45.4 cm (22 × 17 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Modern Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
- Accession no.
- 1954.316
More by Amedeo Modigliani in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001277
Powered by Art Trackers



