Shown from the knees up, a woman wearing a black dress is painted with areas of mottled color in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us, her shoulders sloping steeply down from her elongated neck. She sits with her hands in her lap, and she looks down and to our left. Her peach-colored, long, narrow face comes to a point at her chin, and her cheeks are flushed pink. Her almond-shaped eyes, curved brows, long nose, and closed lips are outlined with gray. Her brown hair is pulled up and back, and short bangs brush her forehead. A gold-colored disk at the point of the dress’s V-neck…
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Café Singer

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884 - 1920)

1917

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92.4 x 60.3 cm (36 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.) ; framed: 112.4 x 80.3 cm (44 1/4 x 31 5/8 in.)
Culture
Italian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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