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Compare the two faces: his long face and narrow blue eyes above her round pink cheeks and white frilled collar, all set against gray-blue and brown.
In 1916 the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz asked Modigliani to paint him with his bride, the Russian poet Berthe Kitrosser, partly to help a friend who was short of money. Lipchitz later recalled that Modigliani finished in two days, so he persuaded him to keep working for two more weeks and earn a larger fee. Modigliani lettered the name LIPCHITZ on the wall above them.
Oil on canvas · 81.3 × 54.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Modernism · School of Paris
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- Museum title
- Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884–1920
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81.3 × 54.3 cm (32 × 21 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
- 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.