Dilewski or Wielhorski
Oil on canvas, 1916?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Dilewski or Wielhorski; Dilewski; Wielhorski; Dewinsky.
- Date
- 1916?
Pfannstiel dated it 1920
Ceroni and Schmalenbach dated in 1918. - Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 116 × 73 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 360 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 236 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 151 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 29/1916 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 154 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | NO |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Müller Collection, Solothurn.
- David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh.
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
- Private collection, United States.
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.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 360 (dated 1920, as Portrait de Dilewski, pl. 47).1
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 136 (dated 1918).2
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 236 (as Dilewski).3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 151 (as Count Wielhorski).4
- Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 101, no. 51 (as Wielhorski, dated 1918).5
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 29/1916 (as Wielhorski).6
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 154.7
- Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.8
Exhibitions
- Solothurn, Musée de Soleure, Hundert Jahre Malerei aus Solothurner Privatbesitz, 1950, no. 43.
- Lausanne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rythmes et couleurs, 1952, no. 49.
- Berne, Kunsthalle, Modigliani, Campigli, Sironi, 1955, no. 17 (as Dilewski).
- Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1986, no. 35.
- Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 57 (as Count Wielhorski, Galerie Beyeler).
- Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991, no. 43; Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
Daniel Levy, counsel for MR in the United States, stated in The Art Newspaper (3 September 2020) that the painting would not be included in MR’s catalogue raisonné.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
This investigation reproduces a comparison of the surface after a recorded cleaning.
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.
Footnotes
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Munich, Prestel, 1990.
- Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
- Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani: The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.