Hanka Zborowska with a candlestick

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska with a candlestick / Hanka Zborowska au bougeoir / Anna Zborowska.

Date

1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni, Schmalenbach and Patani.

Medium

Oil on canvas, unconfirmed in this investigation.

Dimensions

46.3 × 29.5 cm, unconfirmed. Ceroni gives 55 × 39 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right. Inscription on the stretcher: Madame Zborowska au bougeoir.

Present location

Private collection. Last public sale recorded at Christie’s, London, 27 June 1994.

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. Robert H. Fleisher Collection, Philadelphia.
3. Private collection, France.
4. D. Malingue Collection, Paris, until 1980.
5. Private collection, Paris, 1980–94.
6. Christie’s, London, sale 5205, 27 June 1994, lot 23, sold for GBP 1,486,500.
7. Private collection?

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.

• Bernard Dorival, “Existe-t-il un expressionnisme juif?,” Art Présent, Paris, 1947, p. 52.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 404, as Zborowska with candlestick, dated 1919.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 312.²
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 86.
• Werner Schmalenbach, 1990, p. 120, no. 69, as Anna Zborowska.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 324.⁴
• Christian Parisot, 1996, p. 177.⁵

Exhibitions

• Paris, Galerie Malingue, 1980, no. 281.
• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 86.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1990, no. 114.
• Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 84.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

Holes are visible at the four corners of the support.

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.