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Portrait of the painter Manuel Humbert
(Portrait du peintre Manuel Humbert)
(1916)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
100.2 × 65.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1948
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Amedeo Modigliani had a reputation for generosity towards his friends, and they, in turn, often acted as his models. The Spanish artist Manuel Humbert (1890–1975), who posed for this rather solemn painting, was part of the so-called School of Paris: an assemblage of artists, including Modigliani himself, who had immigrated to the cultural Mecca of Paris. Humbert was twenty-six at the time Modigliani painted this portrait.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in white paint u.r.: MODIGLIANI
Accession Number
1854-4
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
artists (visual artists) artists' portraits Humbert, Manuel men (male humans) menswear seated figures suits (main garments)
Provenance
Leopold Zborowski (1889–1932) (dealer), Paris; collection of M. Jonas Netter, Paris; J.-Ch. Girard, Paris (possibly a dealer); Etienne Bignou (dealer), Paris; exhibited Venice International Exhibition, 1930, Modigliani group, no. 36; exhibited Modigliani retrospective; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1933, cat. no. 37; exhibited, Modigliani, Kunsthalle, Basel, January – February, 1934, cat. no. 29; exhibited, Glasgow Royal Institute, 1945, cat. no. 217, pl. 12; with Reid & Lefevre (dealer), London by 1948; from where purchased for the Felton Bequest on the advice of A.J.L. McDonnell, 1949.