Head of a Woman
c.1911-1912
Artist, Italian, 1884 - 1920
East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-A
Artwork overview
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Medium
limestone
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 65.2 × 16.51 × 24.8 cm (25 11/16 × 6 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1963.10.241
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Paul Guillaume); sold April 1928 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[1] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1] The Dale collection inventory indicates that this sculpture was included in the Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sale of 15 June 1927 (Chester Dale Papers, Archives of American Art, box 2, folder 27; copy in NGA curatorial files), possibly purchased by Guillaume. However, according to an undated memo by former NGA curator David Rust (copy in NGA curatorial files), the sculpture reproduced in the 1927 sale catalogue is not this work. After examining the reproduction of the only Modigliani head in the Drouot catalogue (no. 67, Tête de femme), Shelley Sturman, NGA head of object conservation, confirmed that it is not 1963.10.241, the head donated by Dale (see emails of 17 and 19 April, 2022, in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1943
Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.
1951
Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1981
Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1981-1982, no. 68.
1983
Modigliani: An Anniversary Exhibition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983-1984, unnumbered brochure [exhibited in Washington only].
1986
Global Dialogue: Modern Art and the Inspiration from the Third World, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1986.
1989
Arte Italiana 1900-1945, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1989.
1993
The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexander, Palazzo Grazzi, Venice; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1993-1994, not in cat.
2004
Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, The Jewish Museum, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, pl. 16 (shown only in Washington).
2010
Modigliani Sculptor, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, 2010-2011, no. 20, repro.
2017
Modigliani Unmasked, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2017-2018, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1943
Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro., as Stone Head.
1965
Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 101, repro.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 163.
Ceroni, Ambrogio. Amedeo Modigliani: Dessins et Sculptures, avec suite du catalogue illustré des peintures. Milan, 1965: no. XVII, pls. 73, 74.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 144, repro.
1970
Lanthemann, Joseph. Modigliani 1884-1920: Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona, 1970: 143, no. 630, repro.
1980
Mann, Carol. Modigliani. London, 1980: 35.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 649, no. 1026, repro.
1990
Cabanne, Pierre. "Modigliani Sculpteur." L'oeil 419 (June 1990): 54-59.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 154, repro.
Butler, Stephen. Modigliani. London, 1994: 28.
1996
Krystof, Doris. Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing. English translation by Christina Rathgeber. Cologne, 1996: 33.
Wikidata ID
Q63854313