Woman in Profile
Medium
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions
11 5/8 × 9 7/8 in. (29.5 × 25.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Rose Kovner, in memory of her husband, Harold Kovner, 1991
Accession Number
1991.194
Tags
ProfilesWomen
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...