Lunia Czechowska in a white blouse

Identification

Published titles

English: Lunia Czechowska / Bust of a young woman / The white blouse.

Date

1917. Pfannstiel 1956 dated no. 82 to 1916.

Medium

Oil on canvas? Patani: oil on wood. Parisot and the Pola Museum: canvas. This investigation also considers textured cardboard.

Dimensions

72.8 × 45 cm. Pfannstiel: 70 × 43 cm. Patani: 72.7 × 44.8 cm. Parisot: 70 × 45 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right, possibly preceded by an erased inscription read in this investigation as “par”.

Present location

Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan.

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. Netter Collection, Paris.
3. Galerie Bignou, Paris.
4. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune?
5. Schoenberg Jr., St Louis, Missouri (1950?).
6. Private collection (1990).
7. Pola Museum of Art, Hakone.

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. 12; 1956, no. 82 (dated 1916).¹
• Adolphe Basler, Modigliani, Paris, G. Crès, 1931, pl. 11.
• Pierre Descargues, 1954, pl. 39.²
• Jacques Lipchitz, 1954, pl. 39.³
• Ambrogio Ceroni, 1958, no. 90.⁴
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 235.⁵
• Ambrogio Ceroni and Leone Piccioni, 1970, no. 171.⁶
• Christian Parisot, 1991, no. 2/1917.⁷
• Osvaldo Patani, 1991–94, no. 176.⁸
• R. Chiappini, ed., Lugano 1999, no. 36.
• MR, 2002, p. 296, as Ceroni no. 171.⁹

Exhibitions

• Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, MoMA, Modigliani: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1951.
• Tokyo, Art Gallery Tokyu, Modigliani, Utrillo, Kisling, 1980, no. 14.
• Tokyo, National Museum, 1985, no. 80; Nagoya, same exhibition.
• Ibaraki, Kasama Nichido, 1988, no. 3; Japanese tour 1992–93, no. 20.
• Lugano, Museo d’Arte Moderna, 1999, no. 36.
• Tokyo and Osaka, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 37.
• Hakone, Pola Museum of Art, Finding Modigliani, 2014.

Notes

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

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.