Head of a woman

Date: 1916
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: private collection

The painting is a stylized portrait of a woman. The woman has black hair, sharply cut features and smoky eyes. She is wearing a red top that contrasts with the dark brown background. The image appears simple and the colours used are darker and earthier tones. The woman's figure is depicted in front of the viewer and her expression is serious, almost shy.

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Modigliani painted picture Head of a woman in 1916. Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is portrait. This art piece is located in a private collection This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920). He lived a short life and created relatively few works. His painting style is a blend of Cubism, Trecento and Quattrocento and was formed quite slowly. He painted almost solely figures, nudes and portraits, in a very stylized and subtle style. Most significant in his paintings at the sharp lines forming the clear contours and separating large coloured areas from each other (ochre, orange, blue, white and black). Modigliani’s style is distinctive, elegant, but in a certain way also melancholy and sad (perhaps it stemmed from his poor health, which was a result of his disorderly lifestyle and problems with alcohol and drugs). His untimely death was followed by the suicide of his wife and thus brought to an end the typical life of a bohemian genius painter. Modigliani devoted a substantial part of his work to female nudes and the more he painted, the more ingenious they became. Among these is the Red nude.