AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (Livorno, 1884 - Ospedale de la Charité, 1920)
Marc Taloff Portrait, 1919
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AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (Livorno, 1884 - Ospedale de la Charité, 1920)
Marc Taloff Portrait, 1919

Drawing on paper, 32 x 21 cm
Pecil dedication upper left : “Modigliani à Marc 18 déc 19”. On the back of the drawings: “Marc Taloff à Jeanne” (pencil dedication to Jeanne Modigliani by Marc Taloff );

Biography of Marc Taloff - history of the drawing:
Marc V. Talov (1892-1969) jew poet and writer from Odessa changed his name after his conversion to Catholicism in Mark -Marija Ljudovik. He published his first collection of poems in 1912 in Odessa.
Marc Taloff (according to the French phonetic translation of his name) arrived in Paris in 1913 and remained there until 1922, when he came back to Russia. The presence of young people from Russia in Paris was particularly large, of about 20,000 before the Great War. Amedeo Modigliani met him immediately upon his arrival, but it was not casual, it happened during the nights of Russian poetry, attended by many personalities of the world of culture. Taloff built a real friendship with Modigliani in 1919, just in conjunction with the birth of the two numerous anti-bolshevik communities. Modigliani made many portraits of the poet, who discovered the work of Mallarmé, thanks to the Italian painter.

Archive:
- CHRISTIAN PARISOT, LAURE NECHTSCEIN MODIGLIANI “Amedeo Modigliani: Catalogue raisonné” (vol. III), edizioni Carte Segrete, Livorno 2006 (n. 101/19, p.257/tav. p. 322).

Exhibitions:
- 51° Biennale di Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Piazza San Marco, 20th May - 5th July 2005 ;
- Cagliari, Castello di San Michele, 14th July - 20th October 2005 ;
- Domodossola - Sala Motta, “Modigliani a Domodossola”, 29th October - 4th December 2005;
- Exhibited in the porcelain house of production Richard Ginori in Florence and at its drawings museum in 2007;
- Kaohsiung (Taiwan), exhibition at Museo di Belle Arti, April 2011, present in catalogue pag 257.

Provenance:
- Amedeo Modigliani gift to Marc Taloff in Paris in 1919;
- Marc Taloff sells the drawing to Jeanne Modigliani and Valdemar Nechtschein in 1967 in Paris;
- Jeanne Modigliani e Valdemar Necstchein sold the drawing to the current owner in 1983.

Excellent conditions, visible folding of the sheet