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Happy New Year.
I will restart my posting from
today.
Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani.
The 79th work to introduce for this
week is “Portrait of Blaise Cendrars” in 1917.
This work is an expressionist style
portrait and an oil painting on cardboard with the size of 60.9 x 50.8 cm, and
held in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.
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| Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
This work is Modigliani's 1917 oil
painting on cardboard, depicting the French writer Blaise Cendrars. Formerly
part of the Riccardo Gualino collection, it is now in the Galleria Sabauda in
Turin.
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| Blaise Cendrars |
Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known
as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who was born on
September 1, 1887 and died on January 21, 1961, who was naturalized to France
in 1916. He was a writer who had a significant influence on the European
Modernist movement, the friend of many artists in Paris, and especially of
Chagall who called him "a flame, a light".
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| Le Marchand de bestiaux, Marc Chagall (1912) |
One of the features of this work is
that only the name of the model “CENDRARS” is written on the upper right, but
there is no signature of Modigliani himself.
Also, the other feature of the work
is that the ears are extraordinary described in detail compared to other works.
The colors of the model's hair and
jacket are similar, balancing the top and bottom parts, but the jacket color,
which was painted much darker, gives the painting stability as well.
From the viewer's perspective, the
appearance of tilting slightly to the left from the center of the work shows
one of the characteristics of Modigliani paintings.
The left side of the eyebrows and
cheekbones are emphasized more than the right side, the background is also
emphasized with a much darker color on the left side, and the shape of the face
and the rough outline of the face are unique compared to his other works.
Excluding the nose from the model’s
face, the eyes, ears and mouth are depicted very small, and the width of the
face is also narrowed, making the nose more prominent.
It suggests that the model has a
big nose, and his big nose is one of his trademarks as well as his relatively
large necktie.
This painting also shows a feature
of the Modigliani’s styles that doesn't pay much attention to anything other
than the model itself by sparse brushing.
Thank you.
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