Léopold Zborowski (46 × 29 cm)

Identification

Published titles

English: Léopold Zborowski.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

46 × 29 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. Khoury Collection, Paris (1933).
3. C. M. Michaelis, Esq., London.
4. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 May 1960, lot 100.
5. T. Grange (acquired at the 1960 sale).
6. Philippe Blou (?–1991).
7. Perls Gallery, New York (1991–92).
8. Private collection, Europe.
9. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2003, lot 25 (estimate USD 1,200,000–1,600,000; sold USD 1,464,000). The catalogue stated that the work would be included in the catalogue raisonné then in preparation by MR under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
10. 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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 233 (not in the 1929 presumed catalogue).¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 227.²

Exhibitions

• Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, no. 26.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, 1934, no. 18.

Notes

D’Atri papers: the Brussels 1933 no. 26 card was crossed and reassigned to Madame Zborowska, 55 × 37 cm, 1918; the corrected card is no. 96, Portrait of Léopold Zborowski, 42 × 26 cm, dated 1916, Col. E. Khoury, Paris, 1934. D’Atri no. 94 records another Zborowski portrait, 26 × 20 cm, 1918, same collection.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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