Portrait of a woman (Hanka Zborowska?)
Oil on canvas, 1918?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Portrait of a woman / Hanka Zborowska.
- Date
- 1918, unconfirmed.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas.
- Dimensions
- 70.8 × 49.2 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at bottom right.
- Present location
- Private collection, USA? Last named holder: Neil Simon, New York, by 2017.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | ? |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | ? |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Kraushaar Galleries, New York (1929).
- Saklatwalla Collection, Pittsburgh.
- Parke-Bernet, New York, Saklatwalla sale, 1 May 1946, lot 51, sold for USD 3,300.
- Perls Galleries, New York (by 1948).
- Neil Simon, New York (by 2017).
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.
- Ray Bethers, Pictures, Painters, and You, New York, Pitman, 1948, p. 161.
Exhibitions
- New York, Kraushaar Art Galleries, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, 1929, no. 17 (illustrated in the catalogue).
Notes
Presence in the D’Atri papers is unconfirmed.
This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.
The 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.
