
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Homme à la pipe (Le Notaire de Nice)
Estimate
12,000,000 - 18,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Amedeo Modigliani
1884 - 1920
Homme à la pipe (Le Notaire de Nice)
signed Modigliani (upper right)
oil on canvas
92.1 by 54.3 cm. 36¼ by 21⅜ in.
Executed in 1918-19.
Roger Dutilleul, Paris (acquired circa 1919)
Geneviève and Jean Masurel, Paris and Roubaix (acquired by inheritance from the above circa 1956)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Exposition rétrospective à la Galerie Montaigne des œuvres de Modigliani, 1920, no. 21
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Exposition Rétrospective Modigliani, 1931, no. 28 (titled L’homme à la barbe blanche and dated 1919)
Paris, Jeu de Paume, Musée des Écoles Étrangères Contemporaines, 1932-33
Paris, Jeu de Paume, L’Art italien des XIX et XXe siècles, 1935, no. 86 (titled Le Niçois)
Paris, Galerie de France, Modigliani: Peintures, 1945, no. 32 (titled Le vieux Niçois and dated 1919)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 98, n.p., illustrated (titled Le Niçois and dated 1919)
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Modigliani, 1958, no. 37 (titled Le Niçois)
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, 1958, no. 45, illustrated (titled Il Notaio di Nizza, dated 1919 and with incorrect dimensions)
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Amedeo Modigliani, 1959, no. 46, p. 48, illustrated (titled Il notaio di Nizza, dated 1919 and with incorrect dimensions)
Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Peintres à Nice et sur la Côte d’Azur, 1860-1960, 1960, no. 93, pl. XVI, illustrated (titled Le Niçois, dit aussi “Le Notaire de Nice” ou “L’Homme à la pipe” and dated circa 1918-19)
London, Tate Gallery and Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Modigliani, 1963, no. 41, pl. 28, illustrated (titled The Man with the Pipe (Le Niçois) and dated 1918)
Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 14 peintures de Braque, Léger, Modigliani, Picasso, Soutine, 1967, no. 8, n.p., illustrated (titled Le Niçois and dated 1919)
Bondues, Château de la Vigne, Collections privées du Nord, École de Paris, 1967, no. 50
Paris, Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Amedeo Modigliani, 1981, no. 85, p. 159, illustrated in colour (titled Le Niçois and dated 1919)
Jean Cocteau, Modigliani, Paris, 1950, pl. 23, illustrated in colour (titled The Lawyer of Nice)
Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son Œuvre: Étude Critique et Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1956, no. 359, pp. 174-75 (titled Le Notaire de Nice)
Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modligliani peintre, suivi des “Souvenirs” de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, 1958, no. 115, n.p., illustrated (titled Homme à la pipe (Le niçois) and dated 1918)
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Geneva, 1958, p. 106, illustrated in colour (titled The Notary from Nice and dated 1920)
“Picture Gallery. Portrait of Baranowski and Le Niçois,” The Times, 21 April 1958, p. 3
George Isarlo, “Modigliani, le dernier rapin inspiré de Montparnasse,” Panorama du Monde, no. 33, May 1958, no. 9, p. 42
Attilio Podestà, “Modigliani a Milano,” Emporium, vol. CXXIX, no. 769, January 1959, p. 5, illustrated (titled Il notaio di Nizza and 1919)
Franco Russoli, Modigliani, London, 1959, pl. 33, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled The Notary of Nice and dated 1919)
Journal des Arts, November 1961, no. 40
Georges Boudaille and Jacques Lipchitz, Modigliani, Paris, 1966, p. 14
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, London, 1967, p. 141, illustrated in colour (dated 1918)
Gaston Diehl, Modigliani, New York, 1969, p. 64, illustrated in colour (titled The Man with the Pipe (The Man from Nice) and dated 1918)
Géza Csorba, Modigliani, Budapest, 1969, pl. 46, n.p., illustrated (titled A Nizzai Közjegyző and dated 1919)
Nello Ponente, Modigliani, London, 1969, pl. 71, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled The Notary of Nice and dated 1919)
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, Il dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 288, p. 103, illustrated (titled Uomo con pipa (Il notaio di Nizza (?) and dated 1919)
Franco Russoli, Modigliani, Milan, 1970, p. 33
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, 1884-1920, Catalogue Raisonné, Barcelona, 1970, no. 356, p. 253, illustrated (titled Portrait d’homme, dit “Le notaire de Nice” and dated 1919)
Yasuo Kamon, Modigliani/Utrillo, Tokyo, 1971, no. 35, illustrated (titled Homme à la pipe (Le niçois) and dated 1918)
Ambrogio Ceroni and Françoise Cachin, Tout L’œuvre peint de Modigliani, Paris, 1972, no. 288, p. 103, illustrated (titled Le Notaire de Nice and dated 1919)
Alfred Werner, Modigliani, Paris, 1975, p. 43
Shotaro Yasouka, Modigliani/Utrillo. The Book of Great Masters 24, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 55, illustrated in colour (titled Le niçois and dated 1918)
Bernard Zurcher, Modigliani, Paris, 1980, pl. 67, n.p., illustrated in colour (titled Le Notaire de Nice and dated 1919)
Jacques Lassaigne, Tout Modigliani. La peinture, Paris, 1982, no. 288, p. 82, illustrated (titled Le notaire de Nice and dated 1919)
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, New York, 1985, p. 141, illustrated in colour (titled Man with a Pipe)
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Paris, 1985, p. 138, illustrated in colour (titled Le Niçois (Le notaire niçoise) and dated 1919)
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La vie et l’œuvre d’Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1987, p. 194
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1988, p. 141
Alfred Werner, Amedeo Modigliani, London, 1990, p. 113, illustrated in colour (dated 1918)
Christian Parisot, Modigliani. Catalogue raisonné. Peinture, dessins, aquarelles, vol. II, Livorno, 1991, no. 24/1919, p. 253, illustrated (titled Le notaire de Nice and dated 1919)
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Dipinti, Milan, 1991, no. 300, p. 300, illustrated in colour
Doris Krystof, Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920. La poésie du regard, Cologne, 1996, p. 83, illustrated in colour (dated 1918)
Frances Alexander and Jane Rogoyska, Amedeo Modigliani, 2005, p. 38, illustrated in colour (titled Man with Pipe (The Notary of Nice) and dated 1918)
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani, El rostro intemporal, Madrid, 2008, p. 374, illustrated in colour (detail) and p. 375, illustrated in colour (dated 1919)
Exh. Cat., Milan, Fondazione Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Silvio Zanella, Il mistico profano. Omaggio a Modigliani, 2010, p. 166, illustrated in a photograph
Exh. Cat., Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, Amedeo Modigliani: The Inner Eye, 2016-17, p. 139, fig. 54, illustrated in a photograph; fig. 55, illustrated in colour in a reproduction of a book
Marc Restellini, Amedeo Modigliani. Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, New Haven and London, 2026, vol. 5, no. 317, p. 136, illustrated in colour (titled Le Niçois à la casquette fumant sa pipe)
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