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Portrait of a Woman

c. 1917–18
(Italian, 1884–1920)
Italy, 20th century
oil on canvas
Framed: 94.6 x 77.5 x 6 cm (37 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 65 x 48.3 cm (25 9/16 x 19 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.358
Location: not on view
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Modigliani drew and painted from an early age; when he was 11 years old, his mother predicted that he would become an artist.

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Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906 where he became a key member of the avant-garde art world. His portraits, known for their subtle color and elegantly elongated forms, chronicle the lives of fellow artists and poets, although the woman in this painting remains unidentified. Influenced by African masks such as those made by the Baule people of the Ivory Coast and Cubism, a style of art that stresses abstract structure over realism, the artist rendered the sitter’s features as flat, geometric planes.
Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman

c. 1917–18

Amedeo Modigliani

(Italian, 1884–1920)
Italy, 20th century

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