Man seated at a table

Identification

Published titles

English: Man seated at a table; Man with a glass of wine.
French: Le Sconezec.

Date

1918 in Ceroni, Patani and Parisot. Lanthemann dates the canvas 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed.

Dimensions

92.53 × 54.5 cm, unconfirmed (Parisot: 93 × 55 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Last named sale: Sotheby’s, 27 June 1989, lot 31.

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. Private collection, Paris.
3. De Hauke & Co., New York (by 1929).
4. Ester Robles Gallery, Los Angeles (by 1961).
5. Private collection, Geneva.
6. Sotheby’s, 27 June 1989, lot 31.
7. 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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 114.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 409, as Man with the glass of wine (Le Sconezec), dated 1919.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 275, dated 1918.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 289.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 41/1918.⁵

Exhibitions

• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, pl. 9, as L’homme au verre de vin.
• Paris, Jacques Seligmann and Co., 1929.
• Boston and Los Angeles, 1961, no. 26.
• Edinburgh and London, Tate, 1963, no. 40.
• Frankfurt, Steinernes Haus, 1963, no. 24.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 165; private collection, Paris, 1929.

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