Léopold Zborowski (40 × 32 cm)

Identification

Published titles

English: Léopold Zborowski.

Date

1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

40 × 32 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom 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. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 March 1977.
3. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 6 December 1983, lot 36.
4. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 November 1995, lot 60 (sold GBP 420,000).
5. Parisot also names the Halvorsen Collection, Oslo, and Alden Brooks.
6. 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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, supplement 1974 (certificate or similar; this investigation marks the citation as unconfirmed).
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 14/1917.¹
• Christian Parisot, Modigliani, Paris, Pierre Terrail, 1992, p. 95.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1957? (this investigation marks the citation as unconfirmed).
• Stockholm, Konstgalleriet, collection Svensk-Franska.
• Paris, Musée de Montmartre, Modigliani room, 1990, no. 3.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where the source recorded them. Ceroni and Patani do not list the painting.

This investigation records an almost identical image also accepted by Lanthemann, with visible differences between the two reproductions.

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