Reclining nude on a white pillow (Modigliani)

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Reclining nude (Nu couché) (Amedeo Modigliani)
Reclining nude (Nu couché)
Amedeo Modigliani , 1917
Oil on canvas
60 × 92 cm
State Gallery Stuttgart
Amedeo Modigliani exhibition, 1917, Berthe Weill

Reclining female nude on a white pillow is a painting by the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani from 1917 . It is part of the artist's famous Nu couché ( Reclining Nude ) series. The work of art has been in the Stuttgart State Gallery since 1959 .

history

Between 1916 and 1917 Modigliani painted around 30 nudes , of which his reclining nudes (Nu couché) are the most famous. The series was commissioned by Léopold Zborowski , who was his friend and art dealer. He also provided him with an apartment, painting materials and models. He paid Modigliani fifteen to twenty francs a day.

The works were shown in his only solo exhibition in 1917 at Galerie Berthe Weill , Paris. However, the exhibition was closed by the police on the day it opened. For the time, the pictures were felt to be too revealing.

The Stuttgart painting

“Modigliani's elegant female nudes, among which the Stuttgart picture occupies an important position, made Modigliani famous. A favorite theme of European painting is presented by him with a clarity of lines reminiscent of the early Italians. The even body, which is set in curved contours, stands out almost like a section from the rich red-brown and blue-black of the ground. The head leaning on the arm on the light-colored pillow is mask-like beauty, only the dark, overcast look is profound and seductive. "

- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart : staatsgalerie.de

Individual evidence

  1. Mason Klein: et al., Pp. 61-62.