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Information

Artist

Amedeo Modigliani

1884
Livorno, Italien

1920
Paris, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on cardboard

Dimensions

Image: 104 × 75.2 × 3.2 cm
Frame: 124.5 × 95.3 × 7.3 cm

Signature

Bez. o.l.: "modigliani" und "SAVOIR"

Accession Number

0231

Catalogue Raisonné

Parisot 2, 4/1914

Acquisition year

1986

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of the painting “Portrait de Diego Rivera” by Amedeo Modigliani after its creation in 1914. Presumably no earlier than 1918, but no later than January 1920, Alden Brooks acquired the work from Léopold Zborowski. By 1923 at the latest, it was in the possession of the Paul Guillaume Gallery in Paris. After that, it can only be traced again in 1929, when it was part of the Jonas Netter collection until at least 1934. There are further indications of a temporary ownership of private collections from Stockholm Mexico. Galerie Beyeler bought the painting “Portrait de Diego Rivera” in 1978; it was purchased from Galerie Beyeler by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen for its holdings in 1985.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “Portrait de Diego Rivera,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben - über die Freunde der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - aus Spenden der nordrhein-westfälischen Wirtschaft und ergänzenden Landesmitteln im Jahr 1986

Exhibitions

Amedeo Modigliani, 18.4.-6.7.1991, Kunsthaus Zürich
FACE TO FACE to Cyberspace, 29.5.-18.9.1999, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Century City. Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, 31.1.-28.4.2001, Tate Modern, London
Mexique Europe. Allers - Retours. 1910 - 1960 (Mexico - Europe, Return Journeys,1900-1950), 3.9.2004-15.1.2005, Musée d'art Moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq
Modigliani y su tiempo (Modigliani and his Times), 4.2.-17.5.2008, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Amedeo Modigliani. Ein Mythos der Moderne, 16.4.-29.8.2009, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Modigliani, 21.11.2017-1.4.2018, Tate, London
museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
Modigliani. Revolution des Primitivismus, 16.9.2021-8.1.2022, Albertina, Wien
Beste Freunde. 50 Jahre Freundeskreis der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 4.6.-6.7.2019, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Henkel Galerie)
Modigliani, Moderne Blicke, 23.11.2023-17.8.2024, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart/Museum Barberini Potsdam