Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

Amedeo Modigliani

Date

c. 1917–18

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

Italy, 20th century

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani studied briefly in Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906 where he became a key member of the avant-garde art world. His portraits, known for their subtle color and elegantly elongated forms, chronicle the lives of fellow artists and poets, although the woman in this painting remains unidentified. Modigliani drew and painted from an early age; when he was 11 years old, his mother predicted that he would become an artist.

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