Amedeo Modigliani

Portrait of Doctor Devaraigne

Portrait of Doctor Devaraigne https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/portrait-of-doctor-devaraigne-1917

Portrait of Madame Zborowska

Portrait of Madame Zborowska https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/portrait-of-madame-zborowska-1917

Marie, daughter of the people

Marie, daughter of the people https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/marie-daughter-of-the-people-1918

Portrait of Beatrice Hastings

Portrait of Beatrice Hastings https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/portrait-of-beatrice-hastings-1915-1

Marcelle

Marcelle https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/marcelle-1917

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Fishko, 1981

Two Young Peasants in Prayer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482292

Landscape

Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/landscape

Bust of a Young Woman

Bust of a Young Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/bust-of-a-young-woman

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Seated Female Nude https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459958

Woman's Head

Woman's Head https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/woman-s-head-1915-2

Young servant girl

Young servant girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/young-servant-girl

Young Farmer

Young Farmer https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/young-farmer-1918

Paulette Jourdain

Paulette Jourdain https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/paulette-jourdain

Nude

Nude https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/nude-1917

Cypress Trees and House

Cypress Trees and House https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/cypress-trees-and-house-1919

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Standing Nude https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459959

Jeanne Hebuterne with Necklace

Jeanne Hebuterne with Necklace https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/jeanne-hebuterne-with-necklace-1917

The Servant Girl

The Servant Girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/the-servant-girl

Nude Bust

Nude Bust https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/nude-bust-1915

Lunia Czechowska

Lunia Czechowska https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/lunia-czechowska-1917

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

Boy in a Striped Sweater https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/490011

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of a Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/portrait-of-a-woman-1915

The Zouave

The Zouave https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/the-zouave-1918

Head of a Young Girl

Head of a Young Girl https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/head-of-a-young-girl-1916

Reclining nude with Blue Cushion

Reclining nude with Blue Cushion https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/reclining-nude-with-blue-cushion-1917

Gift of The Chester Dale Collection, 1956

The Italian Woman https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488927

Girl with a polka-dot blouse

Girl with a polka-dot blouse https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/girl-with-a-polka-dot-blouse-1919

A Blond Wearing Earrings

A Blond Wearing Earrings https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/a-blond-wearing-earrings

Beggar Woman

Beggar Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/amedeo-modigliani/beggar-woman-1909

Born of Jewish parents in the Italian coastal town of Leghorn, Amedeo Modigliani settled in Paris in 1906, where he developed friendships with Pablo Picasso , the poet Max Jacob, the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and other members of the literary and artistic avant-garde, many of whom appear in his portraits. He led a notoriously bohemian life, shortened by a self-destructive use of alcohol and drugs. Modigliani produced his finest paintings between 1914 and his premature death in 1920. Within a limited range of subjects, mainly portraits and nudes, he developed a highly distinctive style of sensitively elongated forms.In this portrait, Modigliani's emphasis is on a strong formal structure dominated by the grid in the background and the echoing curves of the sitter's hat, shoulders, and features. There is none of the pathos often associated with his work. The artist seems instead to have invested this portrait with a note of ironic detachment, even humor, reflected in both the title of the painting (which refers to Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France) and the expression of amused inscrutability worn by the sitter. Were painter and sitter perhaps both amused by the flamboyant hat? Modigliani's skill in rhyming forms, while at the same time keeping us visually interested and slightly off-balance, is evident throughout the picture, which resonates with the lessons of Paul Cezanne, Cubism, and African sculpture.The sitter for this portrait may well have been Beatrice Hastings, an English poetess who was Modigliani's mistress at the time. Because of the artist's tendency to generalize his sitter's features, however, a comparison of this portrait with others of Hastings is inconclusive.—Entry, Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (1994), p. 150-151. Joseph Winterbotham Collection

Madam Pompadour https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27281/