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Property from the David Lloyd Kreeger Foundation

Amedeo Modigliani

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.