Chakoska (Lunia Czechowska)

Identification

Published titles

English: Chakoska / Kakoska / Lunia Czechowska.

Date

1917. The inscription reads CHAKOSKA / 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

81 × 45 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, with the inscription CHAKOSKA / 1917.

Present location

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, inv. MASP.00151. Gift of Banco Nacional Imobiliário S.A., Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais, Banco Moreira Salles S.A. and Orozimbo Roxo Loureiro, 1952, acquired from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.

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. Hostetler Collection, Paris.
3. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
4. MASP, São Paulo, inv. MASP.00151, gift 1952.

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.

• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 84.¹
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 170.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 233.³
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 175.⁴
• MR, 2002, p. 297.⁵
• Christian Parisot, 2015, no. 50/1917.⁶
• Victoria Soto Caba, 2007.⁷

Exhibitions

• Paris, 1927 (MASP files).
• Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Arte moderna in Italia, 1915–1935, 1967.
• Martigny, 1990, no. 67.
• Lugano, 1999, no. 38.
• Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 2002, no. 61.
• São Paulo, MASP, Olhar e Ser Visto, 2008–10; Passagens por Paris, 2013–15; Arte da França, 2015.
• Turin, GAM, Modigliani e la Bohème di Parigi, 2015.

Notes

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

This investigation records holes at the corners of the support. Three corners; the lower right probably covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

MASP publishes Chakoska (Lunia Czechowska), inv. MASP.00151, as a 1952 gift acquired from Marlborough Fine Art, London. The museum size in this file is 81 × 45 cm; a trade reproduction cites 81 × 53.5 cm. Both readings are retained until a museum technical sheet is checked.

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.