Florence
Oil on canvas — 1915 ?
Identification
- Title
- English: Florence.
- Date
- 1915 ?
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 77.3 x 51.2 cm?
- Signature
- "modigliani" upper right
- Present location
- Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany ( Inv. no. ML 76/2896)
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | NO |
| Christian Parisot | NO |
| 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
- Heinz Witte-Lenoir (as gift from Modigliani?)
- Fondation Corboud, Köln, (acquired in 1954)
- Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
- Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany ( Inv. no. ML 76/2896)
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.
No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.
Exhibitions
No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.
Notes
There is strong doubts over this painting.
The original owner Witte-Lenoir was a German painter in the school of Paris and he explained that the painting was received as a gift from Modigliani and that it suffered strong damages during the war (II WW) and that he had to strongly restore it. Actually nor the surface or the style is coincident with the date he originally provided to the museum. Actually the Museum Ludwig has the painting in storage and believe that the painting is by the hand of Witte- Lenoir.
There is another portrait supposedly painted by Modigliani with the same provenance, a portrait of Witte-Lenoir that has more or less the same aspect and it was dated by Witte-Lenoir in 1907:
Witte-Lenoir portrait dated in 1907 and attributed to Modigliani by Lenoir
Where sources disagree, both readings are given. This is a working research page, not a catalogue raisonné.
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, holds the work under inventory ML 76/2896; the museum has expressed strong doubts about the attribution, regarding it as more likely by Heinz Witte-Lenoir.
