The poet
Oil on canvas, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: The poet.
French: Le poète. - Date
- 1918 (unconfirmed).
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (unconfirmed).
- Dimensions
- 61.6 × 38.7 cm (unconfirmed).
- Signature
- Unsigned.
- Present location
- Whereabouts unknown. Last named holder in this investigation: Victor A. Carter, Los Angeles.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | ? |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
- Jacob Goldschmidt Collection, New York.
- Zeppo Marx Collection, Los Angeles.
- Henry Ginsburg Collection, Los Angeles.
- Victor A. Carter Collection, Los Angeles.
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. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.
- No book-length catalogue raisonné entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- Los Angeles County Museum, 1956?
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Los Angeles County Museum, 1961, no. 25.
Notes
Not listed in the D’Atri papers?
This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person, and in several cases not in a reliable colour reproduction.
Distinct from the smaller Poète filed as 1918-w-106.
Published documentation for this work is limited. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where they are recorded in this investigation.
This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.
