Identification

Published titles

English: Lunia Czechowska Seated (MASP); Lunia Czechowska; Lunia Czechowska Seated.

Date

The museum dates the work about 1918. MR, Parisot and Klein have dated it 1918 or 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

81 × 53.5 cm. Parisot, MR and Klein give 80 × 52 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (inv. MASP.00152). Gift of Raul Crespi, 1952.

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. Galerie Zak, Paris (unconfirmed).
3. Raul Crespi Collection.
4. MASP, São Paulo, gift of Raul Crespi, 1952 (inv. MASP.00152).

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.

• MR, Luxembourg 2002, no. 99, pp. 380–381, dated 1919, size 80 × 52 cm.¹
• Mason Klein, 2004, p. 157, pl. 73, dated 1918, size 80 × 52 cm.²
• Christian Parisot, 2006, no. 39, dated 1919, size 80 × 52 cm.³
• Mason Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, The Jewish Museum, 2018, dated 1919, size 80 × 52 cm.

Exhibitions

• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 99, curated by MR.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 68.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, 2004.
• Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2004–05.
• Washington, The Phillips Collection, 2005.
• Turin, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani Unmasked, 2018.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers (unconfirmed).

This investigation groups the portrait with several closely related Lunia compositions of 1918–19.

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