Mme Zborowska
Oil on canvas?, 1917
Identification
- Published titles
- English: Mme Zborowska.
- Date
- 1917.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas?
- Dimensions
- 80.9 × 45.7 cm?
- Signature
- Signed modigliani at top right.
- Present location
- Private collection? This investigation also lists The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, as an unverified later location.
Catalogue numbers
| Compiler | Number |
|---|---|
| Arthur Pfannstiel | NO |
| Joseph Lanthemann | NO |
| Ambrogio Ceroni | NO |
| Jeanne Modigliani | ? |
| Christian Parisot | YES? |
| Osvaldo Patani | NO? |
| Modigliani Project | ? |
| MR | ? |
| Modigliani Initiative | ? |
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
- Edwin E. Hokin Collection, Chicago.
- Gift, 1955, to the Art Institute of Chicago, inv. 1955.1534.
- Deaccessioned 1990?
- The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo?
- 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.
- No book-length catalogue entry is recorded in this investigation.
Exhibitions
- No exhibitions were listed in this investigation.
Notes
This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.
This investigation records that no good colour reproduction of the painting had been seen.
The Art Institute of Chicago announced in April 1990 that it would deaccession Portrait of Mme Zborowska, 1917, gift of Edwin E. Hokin (inv. 1955.1534), with an estimate of $4–6 million, among eleven works offered that spring. The later Oslo step in this file remains unverified.
Published documentation for this file is thin. Catalogue numbers, exhibitions and bibliography are given only where this investigation recorded them.
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.
