Audio Tour Stop 5

Head of a Woman, Amedeo Modigliani

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

이 조각품은 아메데오 모딜리아니(Amedeo Modigliani)가 많은 회화에서 길쭉한 얼굴과 아몬드형 눈으로 인물을 표현한 그의 독특한 인물화 양식을 반영합니다. 모딜리아니는 1909년부터 1914년까지 조각에 집중했으며, 1920년 35세에 결핵으로 사망했습니다.

Head of a Woman (Korean)
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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