Léopold Zborowski (bust)

Oil on canvas, 1919

Date1919

MediumOil on canvas

Size55 × 38.2 cm

CollectionBarnes Foundation

SignatureTop right

Investigation1919-w-33

Identification

Published titles: English: Léopold Zborowski (bust); Léopold Zborowski.
Date: The Barnes Foundation dates the work 1919. Lanthemann dates it 1918. Ceroni and Parisot date it 1919.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 55 × 38.2 cm, as published by the Barnes Foundation (21 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.).
Signature: Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF261).

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	NO
Joseph Lanthemann	no. 320
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 309
Jeanne Modigliani	YES
Christian Parisot	no. 19/1919
Osvaldo Patani	no. 321
Modigliani Project	?
MR	YES
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

Probably L. E. van Leer, Paris, by 1922–23.
Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Albert C. Barnes, purchased from Paul Guillaume, Paris, 9 January 1923. Patani adds a Maouradian collection, which the Barnes record does not.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF261).

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.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture, Philadelphia, 1923.
Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 141.¹
Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 320, dated 1918.²
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 309, as Léopold Zborowski, bust, dated 1919.³
Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 321.⁴
Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 19/1919.⁵
MR, Luxembourg 2002, mentioned p. 370.⁶

Exhibitions

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1923.
This investigation states that the painting has not left the Barnes Foundation since the 1920s. The Foundation records it as currently on view in Room 19.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Holes are visible at the four corners of the canvas.

This investigation treats the bust as a related study for the seated Zborowski at MASP.

The original page of this investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where the sources disagree, both readings are given.

Léopold Zborowski, bust — The painting. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, from this investigation.

Signature at top right. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Ear — Drawn and coloured ear. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Bust compared — Comparison plate from this investigation.

Seated Zborowski at MASP — Related seated portrait. Image from this investigation.

In situ at the Barnes — The painting in its Barnes ensemble. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Footnotes

Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Christian Parisot, Catalogue raisonné Modigliani, Livorno, Graphis Arte, 1991.
MR, Modigliani: l’ange au visage grave, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002.