Amedeo Modigliani: Reclining Female Nude, 1917
Oil on canvas
60 x 92 cm
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Photo courtesy of Gallarate Museum of Modern Art
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Il Mistico Profano: Omaggio a Modigliani
ITALY
GALLARATE • Gallarate Museum of Modern Art • Ongoing
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This show features 20 paintings, over 50 drawings and a large collection of photographs and documents pertaining to Modigliani‘s early years’ in Italy and France. The exhibition opens with a painting created in 1898, when Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) was just 14 years old. Produced in his hometown of Livorno, it is one of only three landscapes to survive by Modigliani, who had a lifelong passion for figurative art. As well as this very early work, the exhibition offers a number of masterpieces from the height of his career. Among these are a handful of portraits, including ones of Paul Guillaume from 1916 and Moise Kisling from 1915, as well as several of his famous nudes.
Modigliani had painted female nudes from the time of his arrival in Paris. His first works were notably expressive and conformed to the Symbolist idea of the female body as a source of sin. Later, his nudes lost this moralising content and embraced a Mediterranean sensuality.
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