A woman with peachy skin and dark auburn hair is shown from her chest up sitting in a wooden chair in this vertical portrait painting. Her body is angled to our right, and her left arm, farther from us, rests on the back of the chair so the fingers of that hand rest alongside her left cheek. Her face is angled to our right but her dark eyes cut back to look at or toward us from the corners of her almond-shaped eyes. She has thin, gently arched brows, a long, sloping nose, and her burgundy-red lips are closed. Her features are outlined with delicate, dark gray or black lines. Bangs sweep…
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Adrienne (Woman with Bangs)

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884 - 1920)

1917

Medium
oil on linen
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.3 x 38.1 cm (21 3/4 x 15 in.) ; framed: 71.4 x 54.6 x 6.3 cm (28 1/8 x 21 1/2 x 2 1/2 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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