Hanka Zborowska

Identification

Published titles

English: Hanka Zborowska / Mme Zborowska / Hanka.

Date

1916–1917? Parisot: 53/1917. Modigliani Project, November 2019: 1916. Jewish Museum 2018: 1916. Tokyo 2008: 1917.

Medium

Oil on canvas.

Dimensions

46.5 × 38.5 cm.

Signature

Signed modigliani at top right.

Present location

Private collection?

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. Walter Halvorsen?
3. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, acquired 3 September 1920.
4. Armand Parent, 1920?
5. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, acquired 1925.
6. Galerie Bing, acquired 1927.
7. César de Hauke, 1929?
8. Maud and Chester Dale, 1929.
9. Cornelius J. Sullivan Collection, New York.
10. American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, New York, 29–30 April 1937, lot 76, sold $800.
11. Olivier B. James.
12. Evangeline Pool.
13. Ernst Beyeler, 1973.
14. Wally Findlay, 1981.
15. Private collection, Japan.
16. Galerie Philippe Cazeau, Paris, 2004.
17. 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.

• Chester Dale, 1929, no. 32.¹
• Raymond Escholier, La peinture française XXe siècle, Paris, Floury, 1937, p. 95.
• Christian Parisot, 2012, no. 53/1917.²
• Guy Patrice and Michel Dauberville, 2015, pp. 46–47.³
• Mason Klein, Modigliani Unmasked, New York, The Jewish Museum, 2017.
• Modigliani Project, newly accepted works, November 2019 (dated 1916; titled Hanka).

Exhibitions

• Pontoise, Musée de Pontoise, Humanisme et expressionnisme, 2008, p. 111.
• Goyang, Aram & Harmony Art Museum, Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne, 2008, curated by MR.
• Tokyo, The National Art Center, Modigliani et le primitivisme, 2008, no. 34 (dated 1917); Osaka, no. 34.
• Bonn, 2009, no. 83.
• Budapest, Hungarian National Gallery, 2016; Helsinki, Ateneum, 2016–17.
• New York, The Jewish Museum, Modigliani Unmasked, 2018 (dated 1916).

Notes

This investigation marks the work as not located in the D’Atri papers.

Possible Pfannstiel matches noted in this investigation: presumed catalogue no. 97 (46 × 38 cm, end of 1917, Bernheim-Jeune) or no. 126 (45 × 39 cm, Drouot 18 June 1925).

Holes are recorded at two corners; the others may have been covered by restoration.

This investigation records a drawn ear painted over the colour.

MR’s and the Modigliani Project’s inclusions are reported as published.

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.