Pierre-Edouard Baranowski by Amedeo Modigliani
Image Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
Nº 215 NO NO ? ? NO YES YES
Date 1918
Title Pierre-Edouard Baranowski - Monsieur Baranowski
Materials Oil on cardboard (the museum say Hardboard, a mixture of paper pulp and wood pulp with cloth pulp)
Size 62 x 45.5 cm
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco California, USA (Inv. Nº 1981.2.37)
Provenance -?-
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Amedeo Modigliani /Leopold Zborowski?
Jeanne Renouard (acquired from above)
Galerie Zak, Paris (acquired from above)
Baron Adolphe Kohner Collection, Budapest (acquired from above, until 1934?)
Sale: K. Pogány, Collection Baron Adolphe Kohner - Ernst-Mûzeum. Lot 57 - 1934
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Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, New York (by 1953)
Edgar Sinton Collection , Hillsborough, California

De Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco California, USA (Inv. Nº 1981.2.37)
Gift of Marian Walter Sinton in 1981

In process

Bibliography -?-
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Pfannstiel, "catalogue presume" Modigliani. L'Art et la Vie. Preface de Louis Latourrettes, Seheur, Paris, 1929, p. 35
Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son oeuvre, etude critique et catalogue raisonne, bibliotheque des arts, Paris, 1956 - nº 215 title Baranowski - dated 1917 size 64 x 49
Note:
Pfannstiel mention the next provenance: Zborowski > Zak


In process
Exhibitions -?-
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San Francisco, 20th Anniversay exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1955
San Francisco, Zacks exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1957
San Francisco, 25th Anniversay exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1960
San Francisco, The San Francisco Collector, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum


In process
Other
Not in D'Atri papers?

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This painting presents holes in the 4 corners

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Signature of the painting:

signature


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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)

ears


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The painting present clear fingerprints in various areas

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The painting was adhered to a rigid surface to avoid its curvature by pressing and during this process the pictorial surface was flattened in volume losing many of its original qualities.

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The painting framed at the de Young in 2017

framed for auction


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This painting is probably the sketch for the face features of Baranowski's full portrait

Woman with necklace amedeo modigliani

The differences between both works are more than evident, the head is clearly in another position, the posture is not the same,the figure is more
in profile than in the final work and the brushwork is done with more "impasto", etc. but as in the same case of another known paintings it is
undeniable they were made by the same hand

This image show both paintings one on top of the other in the same size, showing the changes Modigliani did from the sketch to the final work:

differences

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Another two portraits of the same sitter (of a total of 4 known) have surfaced each one at his level of trust based in the experts who support them:

Parisot /unknown data:
baranovski amedeo modigliani
Restellini / dated in 1917:
baranovski amedeo modigliani

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