Head of Hanka Zborowska

Identification

Published titles

English: Head of Hanka Zborowska; Anna Zborowska.

Date

1918 in Lanthemann, Ceroni and Patani.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed.

Dimensions

46 × 28 cm, unconfirmed (Patani: 46 × 26 cm).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection? Last named locations: Wilhelm Collection, Bottmingen; private collection, Basel.

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. Wilhelm Collection, Bottmingen?
3. Private collection, Basel?

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.

• André Salmon, 1926, pl. 16.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 314, as Anna Zborowska, dated 1918.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 228.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 237.⁴

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 66, dated 1918, private collection, Basel.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 40.
• Marseille, Musée Cantini, 1958, no. 23.
• Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1959, no. 40.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

This investigation notes that the work has not been examined in person, and in several cases not in a reliable colour reproduction.

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