Lunia Czechowska, hand on chin

Identification

Published titles

English: Lunia Czechowska, hand on chin / Lunia Czechowska seated.
French: Lunia Czechowska assise le doigt sur le menton

Date

1919 in Lanthemann, Ceroni, Parisot and Patani.

Medium

Oil on canvas (Based on catalogue documentation; technical examination not available).

Dimensions

92 × 60 cm, unconfirmed.

Signature

Not recorded in this investigation.

Present location

Unknown location, or lost.

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. Dutilleul Collection, Paris ( approx. 1930)?
3. ?.
4. May Collection, Los Angeles? (recorded in this investigation).

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.

• Giovanni Scheiwiller, Arte moderna italiana no. 8, Milan, 1950, pl. 32; Zurich edition 1958, pl. 47.
  - G. Scheiwiller, Arte Moderna Italiana, no. 8, 1950, pl. 32 — reference requires verification; the same plate is cited in documentation for another Lunia Czechowska portrait.
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 146.¹
  - Ceroni 1958, no. 146 — numbering system differs from Ceroni 1970 no. 322; exact correspondence should be checked against the 1958 illustration.
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 344, as Lunia Czechowska seated, hand on chin, dated 1919.²
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 322, size 92 × 60 cm.³
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 15/1919.⁴
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 333.⁵

Exhibitions

• Venice, XVII Biennale, Sala XII, retrospective curated by Lionello Venturi, 1930, no. 21.
  Mentioned as: No. 21 — Lunia Czechowska — Dutilleul, Paris.

Notes

Not listed in the D’Atri papers?

- Patani cross-referenced the painting to no. 293, but that no. 293 belongs to the Heinz Lunia (Heinz picture sold in 2019).

- Parisot no. 15/1919 identifies the painting as a 1919 Lunia Czechowska portrait. Parisot's cross-reference to Pfannstiel no. 113 (1916) appears inconsistent with the dimensions and later catalogue identification; this cross-reference is therefore treated separately from the primary identification.
Parisot’s identification of the work with Pfannstiel no. 113 (dated 1916) is rejected in this investigation as incompatible. Patani’s cross-reference to no. 293 is likewise treated as a confusion with another Lunia portrait (Heinz picture sold in 2019).

- Pfannstiel gave two numbers, 317 and 330, to Lunia with the fan; those numbers do not belong to the present canvas.

- This investigation records that the painting has not been seen in person or in a reliable colour reproduction.

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.