The Italian Woman
ca. 1918–19
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Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40 3/8 × 26 3/8 in. (102.6 × 67 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of The Chester Dale Collection, 1956
Accession Number
56.4
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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...