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Leopold Zborowski (1889-1932) was a Polish poet, writer and art dealer.
Zborowski and his wife Anna (Hanka Zborowska) were contemporaries with Parisian artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Cézanne, André Derain and Amedeo Modigliani, who painted their portraits.
Léopold Zborowski was Amedeo Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, organizing his expositions and letting the Leghorn artist use his house as an atelier. He also was the first art dealer of René Iché, Chaim Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, Marc Chagall and André Derain. There are three portraits of him by Modigliani, such as a 17 3/4" by 10 3/4" artwork sold for $1,464,000 at Sotheby's in 2003. Zborowski highly benefited of the celebrity after Modigliani, accumulating a fortune which he though lost during the 1929's econonical crisis, dying poor in 1931.
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