Hanka Zborowska in a landscape

Identification

Published titles

English: Portrait de Madame Zborowska / Hanka Zborowska in a landscape / Bust of Hanka with a tree behind / Hanka Zborowska in a white shirt.

Date

1918, unconfirmed. Lanthemann dates the canvas 1919, at Cagnes.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed; this investigation also suggests textured cardboard.

Dimensions

55 × 46 cm, unconfirmed.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Private collection, Japan? Last named public sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1989, lot 37.

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. Parent Collection, Paris (1928?).
3. Galerie Bignou, Paris.
4. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (by 1928).
5. Josef Stransky Collection, New York (by 1936).
6. McGowan Collection, Los Angeles.
7. Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1989, lot 37, sold for USD 2,800,000.
8. Private collection, Switzerland (by 1991?).
9. Private collection, Japan?

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.

• Possible identity with De Hauke & Co., New York, stock book no. 3311, 1929 (cost GBP 453; selling price GBP 800).
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 41, reproduced p. 128.¹
• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana no. 8, Milan, Hoepli, 1935-XIV, pl. 27 (Alex Reid & Lefevre).
• The Art Digest, New York, 1 April 1936, vol. X, no. 13, illustrated on the cover, Stransky Collection.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 256, as Mme Zborowska, dated Cagnes 1918.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 108.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 229, dated 1918, as lost.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 364, as Hanka Zborowska with a white shirt, dated Cagnes 1919.⁵
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 239, dated 1918.⁶

Exhibitions

• London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929?
• Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1936.
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1936.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, curated by MR, 2008.

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 151, as Mme Sborowska Anna, dated 1918, Cagnes, 55.5 × 45.5 cm; provenance Parent 1928 > Zborowski > Bignou 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.