Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Paul Alexandre
Amedeo Modigliani
- Date
- c. 1909
- Medium
- Black fabricated chalk on cream wove paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
After studying art in Italy, Modigliani moved to Paris, where he met the dermatologist Paul Alexandre. Alexandre would become Modigliani’s first patron, who eventually amassed a large collection of the artist’s work. Even though Alexandre found sitting for a portrait exhausting, he became the subject for several works. In this study for an oil painting, Modigliani captured the salient features of the doctor’s face: the sharp part in his hair and his piercing stare.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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