Unfinished portrait of Diego Rivera

Identification

Title

English: Unfinished Diego Rivera portrait (usually is named as a sketch, but as can be seen by simple comparison, it has nothing to do with the other 2).

Date

1914 ?

Medium

Oil on canvas (the other 2 are in cardboard)

Dimensions

65 x 54 cm

Signature

Unsigned

Present location

Private Collection, Paris

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. L. Zborowski 1921
2. Sale: Sotheby's, London, 1986
3. Private Collection, Paris

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.

• Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, p. 163 - no. 90
• Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo ed. Milano 1991-94 - no. 451
• Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, 2007

Exhibitions

• Paris, Modigliani, Musée de Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981- no. 90

Notes

There is a file at the MASP archive by the hand of Diego Rivera

in the same page in machine the secretary of Rivera informs that there are 3 other portraits of Diego by Modigliani

1.- J. Netter Coll, Paris (spelling mistake is Netter Coll. actually in Düsseldorf)

2.- Galerie Pierre, Paris

3.- Van de Klip collection, Brussels

Photos of Diego Rivera from 1916 and 1919:

Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.