>To see the works listed year by year, go to the CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ page.
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- German born, he wanted to become a painter and finally became a German translator in Paris.
H
e married a French woman and during second world war he was a Nazi art looter living in the occupied France.
(Close collaborator for E. Goepel the main source for Goering and Hitler)
This is an exact copy of the confidential looted art report on this subject
As member of the ERR he was very active in the confiscation of Jewish collections.
Complete report here
Is curious to see you can hate Jews and collect their work...
He was condemned for espionage, looting and sentenced ti prison, finally went out and started again in the art business:
Various publications, I will focus in just 2 to make this easier:
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. Modigliani, L'art et la vie XI , Ed. Seheur 1929 (know for the catalogue présumé in the last pages).
Included
290 works with only 90 photos, an enormous gap for mistakes.
Published with the support of Zborowski
and J. Netter the famous collector.
Therefore using the files & approval by both of them.
2.-
Modigliani et son oeuvre, Étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Ed. Bibliothèque des arts, 1956.
Included
362 works with only 43 photos, an even bigger gap for mistakes.
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Even a Posthumously publication once dead related to a scandal related to Quatrochi LINK >
Modigliani : a study of his sculpture / Bernard Schuster; Arthur S Pfannstiel
Ed Jacksonville, FL., USA : NAMEGA Corp. 1987.
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Full of mistakes, the same as the others (probably they limited themselves to copying each other, so one mistake leads to another and so on and on...)
I gave it time because the new experts use him as a base to present many new works and I think it's interesting to let the reader reach his own opinion...
In his time it was a good work to note, nowadays it would not survive a minimum analysis.
His opinion today is perfect to fill the notes & records for the auction houses, but only when it also has the Ceroni name in the list...
If a Modigliani painting only bears the opinion of Pfannstiel, it will not hit the floor in the main auction houses.
Please have in mind, I reproduce it as it is, dates, size and location are not right, but that's what he told. |
| Frédéric Pfannstiel his son, collaborates with Parisot (archives legales) as part of committees. His files are actually in the hands of someone from Florida I think... |
Actually his opinion is perfect to fill the notes & records for the auction houses.
But only when it also have the Ceroni name in the list...
If a Modigliani painting only bears the opinion by Pfannstiel, it will never hit the floor of the main auction houses
In a little time I will give more information from his work but until then, you can check his books...
Definitively not a reliable or trustworthy source for cataloging.
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Would you still call it raisonné? |
- NOT COMPLETE, ONLY THE ONES BASED IN MODIGLIANI AND A FEW ON HIS NAZI WORK:
- 1.- Modigliani : Preface de Louis Latourrettes. Arthur Pfannstiel, M. Seheur, Paris (1929).
- 2.- Principes d'action, Adolf Hitler translation by Arthur Pfannstiel, B. Grasset, Paris (1936).
- 3.- La guerre totale. Erich Ludendorff translation by Arthur Pfannstiel, Flammarion, Paris (1937).
- 4.- Die Judenverschwörung in Frankreich, Louis Ferdinand Celine; Willi Fr Konitzer; Arthur S Pfannstiel, Zwinger-Verl, Dresden (1938)
- 5.- Das verratene Frankreich. Arthur Pfannstiel, Pp. 91. Berlin, (1940).
- 6.- Modigliani et son œuvre : etude critique et catalogue raisonnee. Arthur Pfannstiel, Biblioteque des arts, Paris (1956).
- 7.- Dessins de Modigliani. Arthur Pfannstiel, Mermod, Lausanne (1958).
- 8.- Modigliani. Arthur Pfannstiel, Schapire, Buenos Aires (1959).
- 9.- Jean Cocteau discovers some Modiglianis. Arthur Pfannstiel, Art. Connoisseur London, 159.1965/66, LOndon (1966).
- 10.- Werken van Amedeo Modigliani in Nederlands bezit, Arthur S Pfannstiel; Emilio Ribas; Centraal Museum, Utrecht (1968).
- 11.- Modigliani : a study of his sculpture. Bernard Schuster, Arthur S Pfannstiel, Jacksonville, NAMEGA Corp. Florida (1986).
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