Audio Tour Stop 5

Head of a Woman, Amedeo Modigliani

NGA, East Building, EG-103-A, E
Part of East Building: Featured Selections (français)

Cette sculpture, aux traits étirés et aux yeux en amande, possède les caractéristiques des personnages stylisés que l'on retrouve dans de nombreuses peintures d'Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani se concentre sur la sculpture entre 1909 et 1914 environ, avant de mourir de tuberculose à l'âge de 35 ans en 1920.

Head of a Woman (French)
The elongated head and neck of a person with stylized features is carved from beige-colored limestone for this freestanding sculpture. Though mostly carved smooth, the surface of the porous limestone is pocked and textured. In this photograph, the face is angled to our right. Short bangs line the narrow forehead of the tall, oval face. The hair flaring around the crown and behind the tidy, oval ear we see is roughly carved. The marquis-shaped eyes are set high on the face. Eyebrows immediately over the eyes join to make a long, blade-like nose that nearly reaches the bottom of the oval face. The arrow-shape of the nose ends just above a half-moon-shaped lip over a round chin. The long neck continues to a block of limestone that acts as the base. The sculpture is photographed in front of a background that lightens from charcoal gray across the top to nearly white across the bottom.
Amedeo Modigliani, Head of a Woman, c.1911-1912, limestone, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.241

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