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Medium. oil on canvas. Dimensions. 60.1 cm × 92.1 cm (23.7 in × 36.3 in) Owner. Dmitry Rybolovlev. Reclining Nude on Blue Cushion (French: Nu Couché au coussin Bleu) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani created in 1916. [1] The painting is one of the dozens of nudes created by Modigliani between 1916 and 1919.
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: / ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni /; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures ...
The painting realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's New York sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. [4] [8] The purchaser was the Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian. [9] Liu is believed to have paid for the painting using his American Express card. [10]
Dimensions. 60.6 cm × 92.7 cm (23.9 in × 36.5 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Reclining Nude is a painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Done in oil on canvas in 1917, the painting was one of Modigliani's celebrated series of nudes. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
Guy Lodge. September 24, 2024 at 3:45 PM. Celebrated in time for his distinctively lanky, almond-eyed interpretations of the human form, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani died in ...
An official synopsis for “Modi” reads: “A seventy-two-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi to his friends, follows a chaotic series of events ...
The painting was included in a 2017/2018 Tate Modern exhibition of Modigliani's works. [3] The painting was sold by auction by Sotheby's in April 2018. [2] Writing in The Guardian, British arts journalist Jonathan Jones compared it to Ingres' 1814 work Grande Odalisque. [4] The painting is currently valued at over $100 million and is considered ...
Seated Nude is a 1916 oil on canvas painting by Amedeo Modigliani, now in the Courtauld Gallery. [1] The painting is one of a famous series of nudes that Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1918, which include many of his most famous works. Its model was Beatrice Hastings, then the artist's lover.