Hanka Zborowska in a blue blouse

Oil on canvas, 1919

Date1919

MediumOil on canvas

Size90.8 × 60 cm

CollectionBarnes Foundation

SignatureTop right

Investigation1919-w-18

Identification

Published titles: English: Young woman in blue / Hanka Zborowska, blue shirt. French: Le corsage bleu.
Date: 1919 in Ceroni and Patani.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Dimensions: 90.8 × 60 cm (Barnes). Ceroni and Patani give 116 × 73 cm.
Signature: Signed modigliani at top right.
Present location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF268).

Catalogue numbers

Compiler	Number
Arthur Pfannstiel	?
Joseph Lanthemann	?
Ambrogio Ceroni	no. 294
Jeanne Modigliani	?
Christian Parisot	?
Osvaldo Patani	no. 306
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

Léopold Zborowski, Paris.
Albert C. Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (inv. BF268).

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.

Albert C. Barnes, “Primitive Negro Sculpture and Its Influence on Modern Civilization,” Opportunity, 1928, p. 139.
Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 294, as Young woman in blue, dated 1919, size given as 116 × 73 cm.¹
Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 306, same title and size as Ceroni.²
Violette de Mazia, “Subject and Subject Matter: Part II,” Vistas 2, no. 2 (1981–83), pl. 36.
Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, 1993, pp. 224–25.³
Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy and Derek Gillman, 2012, pp. 186–87, 190, 198.⁴
Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁵

Exhibitions

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Modigliani, 1922, no. 13, titled Le corsage bleu (identification unconfirmed in this investigation).
This investigation states that the painting has not left the Barnes Foundation since it was acquired.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

The sitter is identified as Hanka (Anna) Zborowska.

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.

Hanka Zborowska in a blue blouse — The painting. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Signature at top right. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Ears — Drawn and coloured ears. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Barnes hang — The painting in its Barnes ensemble. Image courtesy of the Barnes Foundation.

Footnotes

Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.
Richard J. Wattenmaker and Anne Distel, Great French Paintings from The Barnes Foundation, New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Lincoln University Press, 1993.
Judith F. Dolkart, Martha Lucy and Derek Gillman, The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, New York, Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
Victoria Soto Caba, Modigliani, The Timeless Face, Madrid, Libsa, 2007.