Léopold Zborowski seated
Oil on canvas, dated 1916–17 or 1918 according to the compilers?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Léopold Zborowski seated; Portrait of Léopold Zborowski seated; Zborowski reading.
- Date
- 1916–17?. Pfannstiel dates it April 1918.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 116.2 × 73 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, inv. 98.292. Gift of Audrey Jones Beck, 1998 (donation recorded in this investigation as 1988).
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 266 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 230 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 158 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | 33/1916 |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 161 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | YES |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Max Pellequer Collection, Paris (by 1930).
- Renou et Colle, Paris (c. 1935 until no later than 1948).
- Jacques Guérin, Paris.
- Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 1 July 1970, lot 49.
- Mr and Mrs John A. Beck, Houston, 1970.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, inv. 98.292. Gift of Audrey Jones Beck.
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.
- Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, July 1925, p. 206.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 266.1
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1965, p. 186.2
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 230.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 158.4
- Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, no. 49, cat. 47, p. 99.5
- Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 33/1916.6
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 161.7
- Anke Kruszynski, Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes, Munich, 1996, p. 63.
- Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.8
Exhibitions
- Venice, Biennale, 1930, no. 26.
- New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 20 (Beck Collection).
- Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 47.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Three of the holes are recorded as covered by restoration.
This investigation reproduces a comparison of the surface before and after removal of an oxidised varnish layer.
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: dessins et sculptures; avec suite du catalogue illustré des peintures, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1965.
- 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.