Caryatid: Rose and Blue
1912–14
Medium
Watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and touches of brown crayon on tan wove paper (pieced), laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support overall: 82.1 × 28.9 cm (32 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 84.1 × 31.2 cm (33 1/8 × 12 5/16 in.); Tertiary support: 90 × 36.7 cm (35 7/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45257
About the Artist
Amedeo Modigliani · 1884–1920
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor whose elegant, elongated figures and portraits rank among the most instantly recognizable images in modern art. Born in Livorno, Tuscany, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he studied at the academies of Florence and Venice before moving permanently to Paris in 1906, where he immersed himself in the bohemian artistic milieu of Montmartre...