Hanka Zborowska (unfinished)

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska / Anna Zborowska / Portrait of a Woman. French: La Zborowska.

Date

Pfannstiel dates the work 1918. Lanthemann dates it 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

66 × 50.8 cm (museum). Ceroni and Patani, who do not include the painting, are cited in this investigation with 92 × 73 cm for a related record.

Signature

Unsigned. This investigation treats the painting as probably unfinished.

Present location

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (inv. 33.069). Anonymous gift, 1933, recorded in this investigation as probably Abby Rockefeller.

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. Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, New York?
3. Abby Rockefeller Collection, New York?
4. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1933, anonymous gift (inv. 33.069).

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.

• UNESCO, La peinture de 1860 à 1949, Paris, 1949.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 310, as Mme Anna Zborowska, dated 1918.¹
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 400, as La Zborowska, dated 1919.²
• Mason Klein, 2004, in “Faces of Modigliani,” p. 31, fig. 5.³

Exhibitions

• No exhibition is recorded in this investigation.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

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.