Portrait of Léopold Zborowski
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 266 Nº 230 Nº 158 YES 33/1916 Nº 161 ? ?
Date 1916 -1917? (Pfannstiel dates in April 1918? - others date 1916-17)
Title Portrait of Léopold Zborowski seated - Zborowski reading
Materials Oil on canvas
Size 116.2 x 73 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA ( Inv. Nº 98.292)
Provenance -?-

L. Zborowski, Paris
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Max Pellequer Collection, Paris (by 1930)
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Renou and Colle, Paris, (c. 1935 until no later than 1948)
Jacques Guerin, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's London, "Impressionist and Modern Painting and Sculpture," July 1, 1970, lot 49
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Beck, Houston, 1970

Donation by Audrey Jones Beck, 1988
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA ( Inv. Nº 98.292)

 In process

Bibliography -?-

Deutsche Kunst und Decoration, July 1925, p. 206
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 266
Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani : dessins et sculptures ; avec suite du catalogue illustre des peintures, Edizioni del Milione, Milano, 1965, p. 186
Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 230
Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 158
Zurcher, Modigliani, Ed. F. Hazan, Paris, 1980 - nº 18
Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Prestel, Munich, 1990 - nº 49, cat. 47, p. 99
Parisot, Catalogue Raisonee Modigliani, Graphis Arte, 1991 - nº 33/1916
Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 161
Kruszynski. Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes. Munich, 1996 , p. 63
Soto Caba, Modigliani, The timeless face, Libsa, Madrid, 2007

In process
Exhibitions -?-

Venezia, Mostra retrospettiva di Modigliani – Curated by Lionello Venturi - Biennale di Venezia , Sala XII degli Appels d'Italie, 1930 - nº 26
New York, Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, Inc. 1971 , nº 20 (Beck Collection)
Düsseldorf, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1991 - nº 47
Zurich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthaus, 1991- nº 47

In process
Other Not In D' Atri papers

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Detail of the ear where the drawing is clearly visible and is painted over the color (on top of the color)

ear


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Page of the Deutsche Kuns und dekoration, 1925:

Page of the Deutsche Kuns und dekoration, 1925:
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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners (3 of them covered by restoration)

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Changes of the painting once the oxidated varnish layer was cleaned:

Changes of the painting once the oxidated varnish layer was cleaned:

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Image of the painting framed at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2016:

Image of the painting framed at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2017:
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