Hanka Zborowska

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska; Head of Anna Zborowska; Head of a Woman.

Sitter

Hanka (Anna) Zborowska, wife of Léopold Zborowski.

Date

Lanthemann dates the work 1919. Art UK dates it 1918–1919, which is the range kept here.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

53.7 × 36.8 cm, as published by Art UK for the Sainsbury Centre, inv. UEA 13. The 1958 Charpentier exhibition printed 54 × 38 cm; the 1955 Bern exhibition printed 56 × 38 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norfolk, inv. UEA 13.

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. Not documented before the acquisition by Robert and Lisa Sainsbury in 1935.
2. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (Sainsbury gift).

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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 398, as Head of a Woman (Hanka Zborowska?), dated 1919.¹

Exhibitions

• Rome, VI Quadriennale, 1951–1952.
• Bern, Kunsthalle, 1955, no. 29.
• Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1958, no. 71, as Hanka Zborowska.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1958, no. 37.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers.

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.