Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of the Printmaker Gorvel
1913
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Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of the Printmaker Gorvel
1913
Physical Qualities
Softground etching, Sheet: 302 x 269 mm. (11 7/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Plate: 209 x 147 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)
Image: 157 x 106 mm. (6 3/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Harold Keye, New York, courtesy Carlebach Gallery
Object Number
1953.79
Portrait of the printmaker Georges Gorvel (French, 1893-1938); based on a 1915 graphite drawing entitled "Portrait du graveur Gorvel" illustrated in Christian Parisot, Modigliani. Catalogue raisonné, tome III, Edizioni Carte Segrete, 2006, no. 163
Inscribed: In plate, in image, at lower center: "Modigliani à Gorvel"; in plate, at lower right: "014-15"; not clear if marks at lower right articulate collar of coat or if they form the date "29" as was previously thought
