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Follow the quick, looping pencil strokes of the hair and beard, then look at the plain, almost empty oval of the face they surround.
Modigliani drew the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in 1909, the year the two met. That year Brancusi found him a studio near his own in Montparnasse, and Modigliani soon began carving stone heads himself. The drawing is made on three small sheets of paper joined together.
Graphite with traces of crayon on three joined sheets of paper, mounted to paper board · Sheet (irregular): 7 1/4 × 4 3/16 in. (18.4 × 10.6 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · School of Paris
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Constantin Brancusi
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, Livorno 1884–1920 Paris)
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- Graphite with traces of crayon on three joined sheets of paper, mounted to paper board
- Dimensions
- Sheet (irregular): 7 1/4 × 4 3/16 in. (18.4 × 10.6 cm) Secondary Support: 10 15/16 × 6 5/8 in. (27.8 × 16.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Constance B. and Carroll L. Cartwright Collection, 2025
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.