Girl in a Green Blouse

1917

Amedeo Modigliani

Artist, Italian, 1884 - 1920

Amedeo Modigliani

Attributed to

Shown from the lap up, a pale-skinned woman with an oval face and long neck sits facing us in this vertical painting. The portrait is created with areas of mottled colors outlined with black lines. Her body faces us, and she looks out with pale blue eyes, the irises almost white. Her thin eyebrows slope down the sides and her small, dark peach lips are closed. Golden-orange hair is piled atop her head and a few bangs fall onto her high forehead. Black oval earrings hang from her lobes. Her shoulders also slope unnaturally down. Her mint-green shirt has a scooped neckline and elbow-length sleeves, and it appears to be tucked into a brown skirt or pants. The background is honey orange in the top left quadrant, amber brown in the lower left, and a russet brown door with windows across the top fills the right half. The artist signed the top right corner, “modigliani.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 81.3 x 46 cm (32 x 18 1/8 in.)
    framed: 95.9 x 60 cm (37 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.10.45

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marcel Norero; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 February 1927, no. 80, as Le Corsage Vert); (Etienne Bignou, Paris);[1] sold 5 April 1927 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1]Osvaldo Patani's Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo Generale, 1991 attributes another owner, Georges Cheron of Paris, before Chester Dale. However, this is the only source that states this provenance.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1922

  • Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1922.

1927

  • A Century of French Painting, McLellan Gallery, Glasgow, 1927, no. 54

1929

  • Reid and Lefevre Galleries, London, 1929.

1931

  • Amedeo Modigliani: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Demotte, Inc., New York, 1931, no. 15.

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

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].

Bibliography

1929

  • Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 100, repro., as Le Corsage Vert.

1930

  • Read, H.A. "The Chester Dale Collection." Vogue 25 (15 February 1930): repro. 81.

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro., as The Green Blouse.

1965

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 62, repro.

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 90.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 80, repro.

1970

  • Lanthemann, Joseph. Modigliani 1884-1920. Catalogue raisonné. Barcelona, 1970: 135, no. 407, repro.

  • Ceroni, Ambrogio, and Leone Piccioni. I dipinti di Modigliani. Milan, 1970: no. 114, repro.

1972

  • Ceroni, Ambrogio, and Françoise Cachin. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Modigliani. Translated by Simone Darses. Paris, 1972: no. 114, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 234, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 586, no. 899, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 272, repro.

Inscriptions

upper right: modigliani

Wikidata ID

Q20192113

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