Portrait of Hanka Zborowska by Amedeo Modigliani

This artwork was exhibited for the first time in Italy at the XVII Venice Biennal and portrays the wife of a collector and patron of Modigliani. 

Criticism believes it to be dated 1917 and that it is one of the first portraits of a woman which would become one of the preferred models of the artist. 

The painting is also known by the title Signora dal collaretto. 

Evidence of his profoundly expressive style with a reference to 14th-century Sienese art is found in the elongated form from the face to the neck. 

Modigliani almost focuses exclusively on portraying and sculpting the faces of people that he knows as friends, of which he wants to express with intensity.