Property from the David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation
L'Incisore Weill (The Engraver Weill)
Auction Closed
May 14, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation
Amedeo Modigliani
1884 - 1920
L'Incisore Weill (The Engraver Weill)
signed Modigliani (upper right)
oil on canvas
28 ¼ by 23 ¼ in.
73 by 60 cm.
Executed in 1909.
Alfred Weinberger, Paris (acquired by 1958)
Sotheby's, London, 26 April 1967, lot 72
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above circa 1968 by the present owner
Claude Roy, Modigliani, Geneva, 1958, p. 15, illustrated (dated 1907)
Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani 1884-1920, Catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son oeuvre complet, son art, Barcelona, 1970, no. 14, pp. 108 and 163, illustrated (titled Portrait du graveur Weill and dated 1902)
Leone Piccioni and Ambrogio Ceroni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, 1970, no. 19, p. 88, illustrated
Thérèse Castieau-Barrielle, La Vie et l’oeuvre de Amedeo Modigliani, Paris, 1987, p. 202, illustrated in color
Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo Generale, Dipinti, Milan, 1991, no. 21, p. 54, illustrated
New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, Inc., Corot to Picasso: Exhibition of Paintings, 1931, no. 24 (titled Portrait de M. Weill)
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent Tableaux de Modigliani, 1958, no. 1 (titled Portrait d’homme and dated 1905-06)
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, 1958, no. 3
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Modigliani, 1959, no. 3, illustrated (dated 1907)
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Les Sources du XXème siècle, 1960-61, no. 458
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus, Modigliani, 1963, no. 4
Tokyo, Seibu Department Store; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art and Fukuoka Prefectural Culture Center, Modigliani, 1968, no. 1, illustrated (titled Portrait d’homme and dated 1909-10)
We would like to thank The Modigliani Initiative for their contributions to the bibliography of this work.
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