Portrait of a Woman
Amedeo Modigliani
c. 1917/19
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
55.9 × 45.4 cm (22 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Modern Art
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80586
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...