Mme Zborowska against a blue background

Identification

Published titles

English: Mme Zborowska / Young woman against a blue background.

Date

1917?

Medium

Oil on cardboard.

Dimensions

56 × 46.5 cm or 73 × 41.2 cm? (both sizes appear in this investigation).

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Unknown.

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. Coquiot Collection, Paris.
2. Lepoutre Collection, Paris.
3. Bignou Collection, Paris.
4. Pierre Loeb Collection, Paris.
5. Reid & Lefevre Galleries, London (1928?).
6. De Hauke & Co., New York, inv. 3295, cost £550, 1928 (half share with Reid & Lefevre).
7. Galerie Sloden, Paris.
8. Josef von Sternberg Collection.
9. Parke-Bernet, New York, 22 November 1949, lot 84.
10. Sidney Levyne Collection, Baltimore.
11. Reinhardt Galleries, New York.
12. Hirschl & Adler, New York.
13. Unknown location.

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. 30.¹
• Umbro Apollonio, “Amedeo Modigliani,” Cahiers d’art 1 (1950), pp. 87, 167.
• Arthur Pfannstiel, 1956, no. 182.²
• Joseph Lanthemann, 1970, no. 210.³

Exhibitions

• London, Reid & Lefevre, Paintings by Amedeo Modigliani, 1928, no. 26.
• New York, De Hauke & Co., 1929, no. 13.
• Los Angeles County Museum, loan 1935 and 1943.
• Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, 1946.
• Baltimore Museum of Art?
• Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, Modigliani, 1954, no. 12; Miami, Lowe Gallery, 1954, no. 12.
• Tel Aviv Museum, French Masters of the 20th Century, 1971, no. 56.

Notes

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

This investigation records that no good colour reproduction of the painting had been seen.

A similar or identical composition, 22.5 × 12.2 cm, was offered at auction in 2007 as a copy after Modigliani.

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.