Hanka Zborowska in profile
Oil on canvas or textured cardboard?, 1919?
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Hanka Zborowska in profile / Woman in profile / Head of Hanka Zborowska in profile.
- Date
- 1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni and Patani. Pfannstiel dates the work 1918.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas, unconfirmed. This investigation also raises oil on textured cardboard as a possibility.
- Dimensions
- 41 × 24 cm, unconfirmed. D’Atri gives 40.5 × 23.5 cm.
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection?
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | no. 251 |
| Joseph Lanthemann | no. 391 |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | no. 311 |
| Jeanne Modigliani | YES |
| Christian Parisot | ? |
| Osvaldo Patani | no. 323 |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | YES |
| 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.
- Alex Reid & Lefevre, London.
- De Hauke & Co., New York (1929).
- Alex Reid & Lefevre, London (1929).
- Alfred Conger Goodyear Collection, Buffalo (1929–30).
- Stephen Goodyear, Englewood, New Jersey (by descent).
- 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.
- Maud Dale, 1929.1
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929 presumed catalogue, p. 40.2
- Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 251, as Woman in profile (Mme Zborowska), dated 1918.3
- Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 88.4
- Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 391, as Zborowska in profile, dated 1919.5
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 311.6
- Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 323.7
Exhibitions
- Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, 1929.
- New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 4.
- London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, 1929.
- Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Modigliani–Soutine, 1951.
- Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, Incontri italiani, 1984, no. 66; Turin, Palazzo Reale, 1985, no. 66.
- Verona, Palazzo Forti, Modigliani a Montparnasse, 1988.
- Milan, 1989.
Notes
D’Atri papers no. 161, as Anna “S”borowska (Femme de profil), 40.5 × 23.5 cm, Paris 1918; provenance Reid & Lefevre > Goodyear 1929.
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.
Footnotes
- Maud Dale, Modigliani, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani. L’Art et la Vie, preface by Louis Latourette, Paris, Seheur, 1929 (presumed catalogue).
- Arthur Pfannstiel, Modigliani et son œuvre, étude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956.
- Ambrogio Ceroni, Amedeo Modigliani: peintre; suivi des souvenirs de Lunia Czechowska, Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1958.
- Joseph Lanthemann, Modigliani, catalogue raisonné: sa vie, son œuvre, son art, Barcelona, G. Condal, 1970.
- Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, I dipinti di Modigliani, Milan, Rizzoli, 1970.
- Osvaldo Patani, Modigliani. Catalogo generale, Milan, Leonardo, 1991–94.