Secret Modigliani

Cataloguers index

Amedeo Modigliani — investigation file

Cataloguers of the painted work / Index of compilers cited in the painted-work files.

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LIVING EXPERTS
Archives Legales Amedeo Modigliani / Modigliani Institute /Fondazione Archivi Legali Amedeo Modigliani E.T.S. / etc. (Christian Parisot) - Via A.Gambalunga, 102 - 47921 Rimini (RN), Italia See more >
MR / R Institute / Institute Restellini LLC
Servcorp, Emirates Tower, L. 41, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai
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Modigliani Project, Inc. (Kenneth Wayne)
4 West 43rd Street, Suite 304 - New York, NY 10036
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Modigliani Initiative Inc (Lelie Koot, Julia May Boddewin)
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Other experts (with no active role in the market or catalogue raisonee):

Alessandro de Stefani
Victoria Soto Caba
Marianne Le Morvan
Simonetta Fraquelli
Nancy Ireson
Mason Klein

DEAD EXPERTS
Ambrogio Ceroni (+1970) See more >
Carlo Pepi (+2026) 
Gonzalo Millán del Pozo Portillo (+2022) 
Joseph Lanthemann (+1982 ?) See more >
Osvaldo Patani (+2013) See more >
Arthur Pfannstiel (+1984) See more >
Alfred Werner (+1979) See more >
André Schoeller ( + ?) See more >
Lionello Venturi (+1961) See more >
Giovanni Scheiwiller (+1965) See more >
Claude Roy (+1997) See more >
Alberto G. d'Atri (+1962 ?)
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Lamberto Vitali (+1992) More information soon
André Salmon (+1969)
· French poet & part of the crowd In Montparnasse.
· His work "La vie passione de Modigliani" is in large part guilty for the myth.
· He published memoirs of that time (more to do with novels than with the real artist.)
· They had a cold friendship that later Salmon converted into a lifework.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Jeanne Modigliani (+1984)
· Daughter of Jeanne and Amedeo. Raised by the family in Livorno. Later became artist historian.
· First collaborated with Lanthemann.
· In 1983 founder of the Archives Legales Modigliani.
· Her work is as full of interest as it is full of doubts.
· The relation with Christian Parisot was at first a perfect relation and during the last months not a good one.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Werner Schmalenbach (+2010)
· German art Historian, museum director & connoisseur.
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· Mere recompilation of others with a few additions, His work on Modigliani was just one more.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Jacques Lipchitz (+1973)
· Lithuanian sculptor friend an model of Modigliani.
· Mere recollection.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
William Fifield (+1987)
· American biographer.
· Collaborated with Jeanne.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Moise Kisling (+1953)
· Friend and model of Modigliani.
· Mere recollection with some strong doubts.
· In interviews said he made fakes and sold them using his main dealer Zborowski.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Lunia Czechowska (+?)
· Friend and model of Modigliani.
· Ex lover in some biographies, just a friend in others. She was a guest at Zborowski house while husband was in the war.
· Main collaborator to Ceroni
· She did expertises in her lifetime that today are not even mentioned.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.
Paulette Jourdain (+?)
· Friend and model of Modigliani.
· Ex maid/lover of Zborowski and finally she inherits the gallery.
· She did expertises in her lifetime that today are not even mentioned, or are even hidden.
· No longer cited as an authority in the principal auction rooms.

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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.