George (unfinished)

Identification

Published titles

English: George / George Ortiz? / María Blanchard?.
French: Le peintre Ortiz de Zárate.

Date

1917? The inscription reads GEORGE / 1917.

Medium

Oil on cardboard.

Dimensions

43.2 × 27.9 cm. D’Atri papers: 47 × 29 cm.

Signature

Signed ·modigliani· at bottom left, with the inscription GEORGE / 1917.

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. Amedeo Modigliani.
2. Tsuguharu Foujita, c. 1917–18. This investigation records that Foujita offered the work for sale on a trip to America in 1933 from a photograph titled as an unfinished Blanchard; in that photograph the inscription GEORGE / 1917 and the signature are not visible.
3. 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.

• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹

Exhibitions

• No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 139?, as Le peintre Ortiz de Zárate, 47 × 29 cm, provenance Mme Foujita in 1934.

This investigation records the work as probably unfinished.

Identifications as Julio or Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, and as María Blanchard, are published hypotheses in this investigation. Photographs of the Ortiz de Zárate brothers (1923) and of Blanchard (1909 and c. 1932) are reproduced there for comparison. No conclusion is added here.

Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.

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