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Follow the thin, broken ink line around the big round head, then read the letters of Rivera’s name scattered down the left edge.
Modigliani drew his fellow painter Diego Rivera in pen and ink in 1915. At that time Rivera was living in Paris near Picasso and his friends and painting in a Cubist style; his fame as a muralist came later. Modigliani wrote his sitter’s name in spaced letters at the top left and signed his own along the bottom.
Pen and brown and black ink, over graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on buff wove card · 26.6 × 20.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · School of Paris
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Diego Rivera
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884-1920
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- Pen and brown and black ink, over graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on buff wove card
- Dimensions
- 26.6 × 20.7 cm (10 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.