"Portrait of a Woman", Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1917/19

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884–1920)

Oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.4 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, bequest of Joseph Winterbotham.

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought-after. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. He died of tubercular meningitis, at the age of 35, in Paris.
-Wikipedia

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Source and download: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80586/portrait-of-a-woman

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