Shown from the lap up, a pale-skinned woman with an oval face and long neck sits facing us in this vertical painting. The portrait is created with areas of mottled colors outlined with black lines. Her body faces us, and she looks out with pale blue eyes, the irises almost white. Her thin eyebrows slope down the sides and her small, dark peach lips are closed. Golden-orange hair is piled atop her head and a few bangs fall onto her high forehead. Black oval earrings hang from her lobes. Her shoulders also slope unnaturally down. Her mint-green shirt has a scooped neckline and elbow-length…
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Girl in a Green Blouse

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884 - 1920)

1917

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81.3 x 46 cm (32 x 18 1/8 in.) ; framed: 95.9 x 60 cm (37 3/4 x 23 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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