Madame Zborowska (bust)

Identification

Published titles

English: Madame Zborowska (bust); Madame Zborowska; Bust of la Zborowska.

Date

1918.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

64.5 × 46 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Tate, London, inv. T03569, as Madame Zborowska, 1918, 64.5 × 46 cm. Bequeathed by Mrs A. F. Kessler, 1983.

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. Netter Collection, Paris.
3. Lepoutre Collection, Paris.
4. Reid and Lefevre, London (by 1929).
5. Kessler Collection, London.
6. Tate, London, bequeathed by Mrs A. F. Kessler, 1983.

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. 42.¹
• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 15.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 260, as Portrait of Mme Zborowska, dated 1918.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 334, as Portrait of la Zborowska in bust, dated 1918.³
• Tate Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London, 1986.

Exhibitions

• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 15.
• York Art Gallery, French Paintings from the Kessler Collection, May 1948.
• London, Wildenstein Gallery, The Kessler Collection, 1948, no. 20.
• London, Tate Gallery, The Kessler Bequest, 1984.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Modigliani y su tiempo, 2008, no. 72.

Notes

The D’Atri papers list the canvas twice: no. 147, as Mme Anna Zborowska, dated 1918, Paris, 65 × 46 cm, provenance Zborowski > Netter 1928 > Zborowski 1929 > Guillaume 1929; and no. 157, as Mme Anna “Szorowska”, dated 1918, Nice, 65 × 46 cm, provenance Zborowski > Netter > Lepoutre > Reid & Lefevre in 1929.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

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