Self-portrait

ID: #1900 | Expresionism | Portraits

Date: 1919
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The painting shows a man sitting on a wooden chair in profile. The man is wearing a dark red sweater and a blue scarf or shirt collar. He holds a palette of colours in his hand and looks out gloomily ahead of him. The background of the painting consists of simple hints of an interior - probably a room. The style of the painting is post-impressionist and the work seems to belong to the early 20th century. The painting is vivid in its colours, but at the same time captures a kind of melancholy in the man's expression.

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Modigliani painted picture Self-portrait in 1919. Prevailing color of this fine art print is brown and its shape is portrait. This art piece is located in Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 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.