Identification

Published titles

English: Count Wielhorski (unfinished); Count Wielhorski.

Date

? - MR dated it 1917 in 2002.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

114 × 72 cm, recorded with a query.

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. Identified by MR (2002) as no. 8, Portrait de Count W — unfinished, at the Berthe Weill exhibition, Paris, 1917; acquired from Zborowski in 1919 by “a great French family of collectors,” remaining there until it appeared on the English market in the 1970s. The French edition of the same catalogue adds “by the intermediation of Paul Guillaume?”
2. 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.

• MR, 2002, pp. 286–87.¹
• Maurizio Marini, Modigliani, Paris, Skira, 2008.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Berthe Weill, 1917, no. 8 (identification given by MR, 2002).
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 56 (dated 1917 by MR); Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 39.

Notes

D’Atri papers: not located, recorded with a query.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation records other versions of Count Wielhorski / Dilewski and notes the published disagreement over the sitter’s name.

MR 2002 reproduces a second, smaller image of the same composition beside the gallery photograph; this investigation does not resolve whether two printed brochures exist.

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