Amedeo Modigliani PORTRAIT OF JEANNE HEBUTERNE Estate Signed Giclee 21 x 17″

Description

This is a Amedeo Modigliani limited edition giclee titled “Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne”.

This piece is signed and stamped by the Estate Domaine Modigliani.

Pencil numbered from an edition of 375. Made on thick quality archival paper.

Paper measures 21.5″ x 17″. Image measures 19″ x 15″.

In excellent condition, comes unframed. Comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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During the early 1900s in Paris, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, (1884-1920), developed a unique style. Today his graceful portraits and lush nudes at once evoke his name, but during his brief career few apart from his fellow artists were aware of his gifts. Modigliani had to struggle against poverty and chronic ill health, dying of tuberculosis and excesses of drink and drugs at the age of 35.

In 1906, Modigliani settled in Paris, where he encountered the works of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Georges Rouault, and Pablo Picasso (in his “blue period”) and assimilated their influence.

After 1915, Modigliani devoted himself entirely to painting, producing some of his best work. His interest in African masks and sculpture remains evident, especially in the treatment of the sitters’ faces: flat and masklike, with almond eyes, twisted noses, pursed mouths, and elongated necks. Despite their extreme economy of composition and neutral backgrounds, the portraits convey a sharp sense of the sitter’s personality, as in Moise Kisling (1915; private collection, Milan). A fine example of Modigliani’s figure paintings is a reclining Nude (1917; Guggenheim Museum), an elegant, arresting arrangement of curved lines and planes as well as a striking idealization of feminine sexuality.