Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska seated; Hanka Zborowska; Hanka seated; Anna Zborowska.
French: La Zborowska.

Date

1916?

Medium

Oil on canvas. This investigation also records “probably oil on cardboard” as an alternative reading.

Dimensions

76.2 × 45.1 cm, recorded with a query. Parisot: 81 × 51 cm. The 1958 Milan exhibition: 80 × 49 cm.

Signature

Signed modiglian at bottom left.

Present location

Rita and Alex Hillman Family Foundation (recorded as of 2017).

Catalogue numbers

Legal note on MR: This investigation has not had access to MR’s catalogue raisonné; all research here is based on open sources, publications and exhibitions. By no means has that catalogue been copied at any point. Modigliani Project and Modigliani Initiative are marked YES when the work is published or otherwise recorded by those projects, even if no catalogue number is assigned; otherwise the field is marked ?.

Provenance

1. Unpublished early history.
2. René Drouin, Paris.
3. Hillman Collection, New York (from 1951).
4. Alex Hillman Family Foundation (from 1991).
5. Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008.
6. Lent to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2017 (recorded with a query).
7. Offered, Christie’s, New York, sale 2256, The Modern Age: The Hillman and Lawrence Collections, 5 November 2008, lot 20; estimate USD 4,500,000–6,500,000; unsold as recorded.
8. Rita and Alex Hillman Family Foundation.

The sequence follows the published museum, sale, and catalogue record in this investigation. Gaps and uncertain transfers are marked as such.

Selected bibliography

Book-length publications are marked with a footnote giving a full citation. Exhibition catalogues appear in both this list and the exhibition list when this investigation recorded them in both places. Where this investigation listed a long run of secondary mentions, only the principal catalogues and museum or sale references are retained here.

• James Thrall Soby, 1951, p. 31 (Hillman Collection).¹
• Enzo Carli, Amedeo Modigliani, Rome, De Luca, 1952, pl. 9.
• André Salmon, La vie passionnée de Modigliani, Paris, Verviers, 1957, p. 79.
• Claude Roy, Modigliani, Lausanne, Skira, 1958, p. 79.
• Franco Russoli, Palazzo Reale exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1958, pl. 11.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 65.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 187.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 159.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 34/1916.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 162.⁶
• Emily Braun and Lisa Banner, 1994, p. 116.⁷
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 127, pl. 42.⁸
• Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, p. 92, no. 15 (dated 1916, oil on canvas).⁹
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹⁰
• Nancy Ireson and Simonetta Fraquelli, 2017, p. 188.¹¹

Exhibitions

• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1951.
• Rome, Quadriennale, Modigliani, 1952.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Mostra di Amedeo Modigliani, 1958, no. 20.
• Atlanta Art Association, The Art of Amedeo Modigliani, 1960.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, and Los Angeles County Museum, Modigliani: Paintings and Drawings, 1961 (Los Angeles no. 9, Hillman Collection).
• Czechoslovakia, Modigliani, 1969, no. 16.
• New York, Acquavella Galleries, 1971, no. 16.
• Newark Museum, Hillman Family Collection, 1984 (recorded with a query).
• Brooklyn Museum, Hillman Family Foundation Collection, 1986–88.
• Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Washington, The Phillips Collection, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004–05.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 15.
• Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Amedeo Modigliani: Ein Mythos der Moderne, 2009, no. 66.
• London, Tate Modern, Modigliani, 2017–18.

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

This investigation describes the painting as unfinished and notes that it is signed.

This investigation marked several fields as still being checked. The facts above are those already published; where sources disagree, both readings are given.