Shown from the lap up, a woman with peach-colored skin sits leaning sideways against the back of a wooden chair with her head tilted to our left on her long neck in this vertical, stylized portrait. The painting is done mostly with areas of mottled color outlined in delicate black lines. The top of her head and her left elbow, on our right, are slightly cut off by the edges of the canvas. Her copper-red hair is parted in the middle and puffs down and around her hears. Her elongated oval face and delicate features are simply drawn. Pencil-thin, nearly straight, grayish eyebrows float above…
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Woman with Red Hair

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884 - 1920)

1917

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92.1 x 60.7 cm (36 1/4 x 23 7/8 in.) ; framed: 114.9 x 82.5 x 7.6 cm (45 1/4 x 32 1/2 x 3 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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