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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 67th work to introduce for this week is “Portrait of Victoria” in 1916.
This work is an expressionist style portrait and an oil painting on a canvas with the size of 80.6 x 59.7 cm, and is held in Tate Modern in London, UK.
The model in this work has dark black hair and arched eyebrows and eyes, and she gives viewers her gaze feeling both pride and sadness. Also, she stands wearing a costume of similar color that is not well distinguished from the door in the background.
If dividing into left and right, this work seems that more emphasis is placed on the left side than the right side, in terms that the colors of the model's hair, eyes, costume and the background on the left side are more darkened, and the model's face is also slightly inclined to the left.
While this work is very economical in terms of the number of colors, Modigliani seems to have a complete understanding for the model when looking at the outlines of the model drawn very dark and clearly, and both eyes with clear and dark pupils. Painted thickly using impasto-style techniques, this work is one of Modigliani's most representative works of Expressionism. The dark tones of texture in the work can also be seen as the product of Modigliani's sculptural aspirations throughout his life.
For this work, Jean Cocteau said, "This painting is a work that expresses very strong resemblance found in Modigliani's paintings. Such resemblance sometimes makes people who do not know the model of the painting feel as if they already had known the model before.”
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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 67th work to introduce for this week is “Portrait of Victoria” in 1916.
This work is an expressionist style portrait and an oil painting on a canvas with the size of 80.6 x 59.7 cm, and is held in Tate Modern in London, UK.
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| Tate Modern, London, UK |
The model in this work has dark black hair and arched eyebrows and eyes, and she gives viewers her gaze feeling both pride and sadness. Also, she stands wearing a costume of similar color that is not well distinguished from the door in the background.
If dividing into left and right, this work seems that more emphasis is placed on the left side than the right side, in terms that the colors of the model's hair, eyes, costume and the background on the left side are more darkened, and the model's face is also slightly inclined to the left.
While this work is very economical in terms of the number of colors, Modigliani seems to have a complete understanding for the model when looking at the outlines of the model drawn very dark and clearly, and both eyes with clear and dark pupils. Painted thickly using impasto-style techniques, this work is one of Modigliani's most representative works of Expressionism. The dark tones of texture in the work can also be seen as the product of Modigliani's sculptural aspirations throughout his life.
For this work, Jean Cocteau said, "This painting is a work that expresses very strong resemblance found in Modigliani's paintings. Such resemblance sometimes makes people who do not know the model of the painting feel as if they already had known the model before.”
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| Portrait of Jean Cocteau (1917) |
One interesting story of this work is that another Modigliani’s painting was found under this work from the results of the X-ray study conducted by the Tate Modern Museum in London, England, possessing this work. The painting under the work is another version of “Beatrice Hastings in front of the fireplace (1915).”
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| Another Modigliani’s painting under this work |
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Beatrice Hastings in front of the fireplace (1915) vs. Another painting underneath this work |
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