Lunia Czechowska, left hand on her cheek

Identification

Published titles

English: Lunia, left hand on her cheek / The beautiful Polish woman / Lunia in white.

Date

1918. Pfannstiel and Lanthemann dated the canvas 1917. Ceroni and Parisot dated it 1919. Patani no. 330 is dated 1919 in this investigation (the table prints no. 230).

Medium

Oil on cardboard. Pfannstiel, Patani, Lanthemann and Ceroni record oil on canvas.

Dimensions

54.9 × 45.7 cm (Ceroni and Patani: 55 × 46 cm; Pfannstiel: 55 × 44.5 cm; other sources 38 × 46 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Private collection? Last named public sale: Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1988, lot 22, sold USD 3,800,000.

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. Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
2. Paul Guillaume Collection, Paris.
3. Private collection, Paris.
4. Dudensing Collection.
5. Ruth Maitland, Los Angeles.
6. Walter Maitland Collection, Colorado (by descent by 1955).
7. Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1988, lot 22, sold USD 3,800,000.
8. Private collection?

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 23.¹
• Adolphe Basler, Modigliani, Paris, Éditions G. Crès, 1931, pl. 8.
• Gotthard Jedlicka, Modigliani, Zurich, E. Rentsch, 1953, pl. 22.
• Jacques Lipchitz, 1954, pl. 49.²
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 142, dated 1917.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 142.⁴
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 319, dated 1919.⁵
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 232, dated 1917.⁶
• Carol Mann, 1980, p. 164, no. 120.⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 330 (table in this investigation also prints no. 230), dated 1919.⁸
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 17/1919.⁹
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.¹⁰

Exhibitions

• No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.

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 records two rings on the sitter’s fingers.

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