(Livorno 1884–1920 Paris) Le poète Blaise Cendrars, 1918, signed Modigliani, pencil on thin paper, inscribed in unknown hand: Le poète Blaise Cendrars, 42 x 26 cm, framed, (PP)

Provenance: Blaise Cendrars, Paris
Osvaldo Patani, Milan
Private Collection, Switzerland

Exhibitions: Verona/Turin,1984/1985, Galleria dello Scudo (verso 2 labels)/Palazzo Reale Turin, Modigliani, Dipinti e Disegni, Incontri Italiani 1900 – 1920;
Verona 1988, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti;
Milan 1988/1989, Società per le Belle Arti ed Esposizione La Permanente;
Düsseldorf/Zurich 1991, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein - Westfalen (verso label) / Kunsthaus Zürich (verso label), Amedeo Modigliani, Malerei, Skupturen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat. no. 167, p. 170 with ill. no. 118;
Takasaky/Tokyo/Kyoto, Japan, 1994, Municipal Museum / Museum Takashimaya / Takashimaya Gallery of Art, Montmartre et les Peintres, exh. cat. no. 120 with ill. p. 89;
Marina di Massa, 1996, Massa Carrara, Palazzo Carrara, Modigliani, exh. brochure with ill. (verso label);
Bonn 2009, Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Modigliani, exh. cat. pp. 106 and 181, no. 99 (verso label)

Literature: Osvaldo Patani, Amedeo Modigliani, Catalogo generale, Disegni 1906–1920, Milan 1991, p. 236 (referred to here as Blaise Cendrars seduto a un tavolo);
Christian Parisot, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné vol. II, Livorno 1991, p. 370, no. 44/18;
Anne-Marie Conas, Claude Leroy, Blaise Cendrars, Portraits, Les Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010, pp. 92-93;
Werner Schmalenbach, Amedeo Modigliani, Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Munich 1990, p. 170, no. 167, plate 118