Hanka Zborowska (head)

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska / Mme Zborowska / Anna Zborowska.

Date

1917–1919? Ceroni and Patani: 1917. Lanthemann and MR: 1919.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

55 × 39 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Paul Guillaume, Paris.
3. Sainsbury Collection, London.
4. Rudolph Spinner Collection, Zurich?
5. 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.

• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 342 (dated 1919).¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 179 (dated 1917).²
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Modigliani, 1981, p. 128, no. 44 (dated 1917).
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 186 (dated 1917).³
• Christian Parisot, Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920: itinéraire anecdotique, Paris, ACR, 1996, p. 130.
• MR, 2002, pp. 374–75, no. 96.⁴
• Simonetta Fraquelli, 2006, pp. 9, 110, no. 27 (dated 1917).⁵
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁶

Exhibitions

• Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981, no. 44.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 96; Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2003, no. 67.
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Modigliani and His Models, 2006, no. 27.
• Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Modigliani and the School of Paris, 2013, no. 15.

Notes

This investigation is uncertain whether the work appears in the D’Atri papers.

The 2002 Luxembourg catalogue describes “a series made by Modigliani of 4 portraits of Hanka in white blouse all dated by Ceroni in 1919.” This investigation lists seven Hanka portraits in a white blouse across Ceroni nos. 179 (1917), 228–229 (1918) and 311–314 (1919). The discrepancy is reported as published.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

A reconstruction of Guillaume’s office at the Musée du Luxembourg includes this painting.

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.