Léopold Zborowski in a white shirt

Identification

Published titles

English: Léopold Zborowski / Zborowski in a white shirt.

Date

1916–1918? MR, Netter Collection exhibition, dated the canvas 1916. Mason Klein, 2004–05, dated it 1918. D’Atri dated it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

46 × 27 cm? (Pfannstiel and D’Atri: 46 × 28 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Galerie Bing, Paris.
3. Jonas Netter Collection, Paris (until 1933).
4. Khoury Collection, Paris (1933, 1956).
5. Private collection?

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 17.¹
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte moderna italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1927, pl. 12.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 47.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 287, 46 × 28 cm.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 86.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 227.⁵
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 295.⁶
• Carol Mann, 1980, p. 161, no. 118.⁷
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, exhibition catalogue, 1981, p. 144, no. 64.
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 12/1918.⁸
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 238.⁹
• MR, Luxembourg 2002, pp. 334–335, no. 78.¹⁰
• Mason Klein, The Jewish Museum, 2004–05, p. 130, pl. 45, dated 1918.¹¹
• MR, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012, cat. 34, dated 1916.¹²

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Bing et Cie, 1925, no. 16.
• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 69.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 60.
• Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1952.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 64.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 84.
• Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 1994, no. 4.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 78.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 54.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004.
• Tokyo / Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 48.
• Paris, Pinacothèque, La Collection Jonas Netter, 2012, dated 1916.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2013.
• St Petersburg, Fabergé Museum, 2017–18.
• Livorno, Museo della Città, 2019–20.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 69, as Zborowski, 46 × 28 cm, dated 1919; provenance Zborowski > Netter > Khoury 1933?

This investigation records holes at the corners of the canvas. This investigation records the holes as half covered.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The original documentation assembled for this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.