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About the Artwork
Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo 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.
Inscriptions
Signed upper right: "Modigliani"
Provenance
?: (Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris, France) Until 1933: Georges Bénard, Paris 1933: (Bénard sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 9, 1933 (no. 67), sold to G. Bernheim) 1933-: Probably Georges Bernheim, Paris, France Until 1951: (César de Hauke, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Exhibition history
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). Modigliani Exhibition: Love and Nostalgia for Montparnasse. Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (September 13-October 16, 1979); Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Osaka, Osaka, Japan (October 25-November 6, 1979). Modigliani. Saint Georges Gallery, Liege, Liege, Belgium (organizer) (October 17-December 14, 1980). Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (October 18, 2002-January 12, 2003); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (February 8-May 25, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 28-September 28, 2003). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Amedeo Modigliani. A painter and his dealer. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (organizer) (September 19, 2023-January 15, 2024) https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/amedeo-modigliani-un-peintre-et-son-marchand.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)
- Date
- c. 1917–18
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Accession no.
- 1951.358
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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