Hanka Zborowska in a blue dress

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska / Mme Zborowska seated.
French: La robe bleue.

Date

1917 or 1919? Pfannstiel and the D’Atri papers: 1917. Lanthemann and the Modigliani Project (November 2019): 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas?

Dimensions

100 × 64.7 cm? Pfannstiel and the Modigliani Project: 100 × 65 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at bottom right.

Present location

Private collection, USA.

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. Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sale 22 November 1922.
3. Netter Collection, Paris.
4. Galerie Bignou, Paris?
5. Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London?
6. Alex Reid & Lefevre, London.
7. De Hauke & Co., New York, inv. 3284/3285, cost $2,300, 1928 (half share with Reid & Lefevre).
8. Galerie Bignou, Paris, 1933.
9. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1947.
10. Blaffer Collection, Houston.
11. Private collection, USA.

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.

• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1929, p. 30.¹
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 184.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 403 (dated 1919; titled Zborowska seated).³
• Modigliani Project, newly accepted works, November 2019 (dated 1919; titled La robe bleue).

Exhibitions

• London, Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1928, no. 11.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929.
• New York, De Hauke & Co., Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1929, no. 34.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002? (as marked in this investigation).

Notes

D’Atri papers no. 181, 100 × 65 cm, dated 1917, Netter collection until 1929.

This investigation records expertises by the Modigliani Project and by MR. Both are reported as published attributions.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

The original 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.