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拍品專文
Painted circa 1916, the present picture has been identified as a portrait of Conrad Moricand and it certainly bears a strong resemblance to a drawing of this subject formely in the collection of Stefa and Leon Brilloun (Ceroni, no. 138).
Conrad Moricand was a writer and artist, and a close friend of Modigliani. It was Moricand, who along with Kisling, had made a clumsy attempt to take the death-mask of Modigliani after the latter's untimely death in 1920; his efforts had to be rescued from disaster by the sculptor Lipchitz.
Henry Miller gives an interesting account of Moricand in his book A Devil in Paradise: "Moricand was not only an astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist. In appearance there was something of the mage (sic) about him. Rather tall, well built, broad shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements he might have been taken for the descendant of an American Indian family. He liked to think, he later confided, that there was a connection between the name Moricand and Mohican. ... He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. (H. Miller, A Devil in Paradise, 1956, p. 6).
Conrad Moricand was a writer and artist, and a close friend of Modigliani. It was Moricand, who along with Kisling, had made a clumsy attempt to take the death-mask of Modigliani after the latter's untimely death in 1920; his efforts had to be rescued from disaster by the sculptor Lipchitz.
Henry Miller gives an interesting account of Moricand in his book A Devil in Paradise: "Moricand was not only an astrologer and a scholar steeped in the hermetic philosophies, but an occultist. In appearance there was something of the mage (sic) about him. Rather tall, well built, broad shouldered, heavy and slow in his movements he might have been taken for the descendant of an American Indian family. He liked to think, he later confided, that there was a connection between the name Moricand and Mohican. ... He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. (H. Miller, A Devil in Paradise, 1956, p. 6).