Engraver Weill (recto) by amedeo modigliani
Pfannstiel Lanthemann Ceroni J. Modigliani Parisot Patani Restellini Wayne
NO Nº 14 (only recto) Nº 19 (only recto) YES ? Nº 21 (only recto) ? ?
Date 1907? - 1909?
Title Engraver Weill frontal ( in verso Engraver Weill 3/4 - verso not included by Ceroni, Lanthemann, Pfannstiel, Parisot, Jeanne Modigliani)
Materials Oil on Canvas
Size 72 x 59 cm/ Kreeger Museum (Patani, Ceroni 73 x 60)
Signature: Signed "modigliani" top right
Actual Location Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, USA (2019 for sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong)
Provenance
  • -?-
    Engraver Weill, Paris (?)
  • Alfred Weinberger, Paris (acquired by 1958)
    Sale: Sotheby’s, London, April 26, 1967, lot 72 
    Richard Feigen, London (acquired at the above sale) 
    Acquired by the present owner from the above circa 1968 (lent to Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, USA?)

    For sale / private sale Sotheby's Hong Kong "Panorama: a new perspective" - 29 -3/4-2019
    (no mention to verso portrait in the catalogue sale)

    In process
Bibliography
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    Roy , Modigliani, Skira, Lausanne, 1958, p. 154 (incorrectly dated 1907)
    Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre, son art, G. Condal, Barcelona, 1970 - nº 14 (only includes recto)
    Ceroni & Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Rizzoli, Milano, 1970 - nº 19 (only includes recto)
    Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l'oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Editions ACR, Paris, 1987, p 202
    Patani, Catalogo Generale, Leonardo, Milano, 1991-94 - nº 21 (only includes recto)
    Soto Caba, Modigliani, the timeless face, Libsa, 2007 (recto and verso)


In process
Exhibitions -?-

Paris, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, Galerie Charpentier, 1958 - nº 1 Portrait d'homme (collection particuliere) 72 x 60 cm. dated 1905-1906
Milan,Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, Palazzo Reale, 1958 - nº 3
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Modigliani, 1959 - nº 3, illustrated (incorrectly dated 1907)
Paris, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Les Sources du XXème Siècle, 1960-61 - nº 458
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus, Modigliani, 1963 - nº 3
Tokyo, Modigliani, Grand Magazin Seibu, 1968 - nº 1 (dated 1909-1910 and exhibited as Portrait d'homme)
Kyoto,Modigliani, National Museum of Art , 1968 - nº 1 (dated 1909-1910 and exhibited as Portrait d'homme)
Fukuoka , Modigliani, Fukuoka Cultural Center , 1968 - nº 1 (dated 1909-1910 and exhibited as Portrait d'homme)

In process
Other

The work present the same sitter on both sides:

1.- Recto, frontal portrait
frontal weill

2.- Verso, 3/4 portrait
verso weill
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