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Nude on sofa (Almaisa), 1916 |
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Details | Description | |||
Artist | Modigliani , Amedeo Clemente | Modigliani painted three outstandingly beautiful pictures of this Algerian sitter. (Of the others both of which are head-and-shoulders portraits – one is in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, and the other in a private collection in Paris.) In the Courtauld Gallery’s nude, which dates from 1912-13, there is still something left over not only from Modigliani’s Tuscan ancestors but from the pathetisme of 1900-ish painting. In this ‘Almaisa the vision had on the contrary, an admirable candour and directness. |
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Date | 1916 |
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Institution | Private collection | |||
Medium | Oil on canvas | |||
Dimensions | 81 x 116 cm | |||