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Look at the narrow blue eyes and the one raised eyebrow, then at how the rust-red jacket fills almost the whole canvas.
Modigliani painted this seated man in 1916, the year he found a new dealer, Léopold Zborowski. From 1943 to 1951 it was shown in Philadelphia as a portrait of Kisling; the museum now names the sitter Monsieur Deleu. Thin dark outlines hold the face and clothes, and the color inside them is brushed on in streaks.
oil on canvas · overall: 81.1 x 46.7 cm · National Gallery of Art · School of Paris
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Monsieur Deleu
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884 - 1920
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 81.1 x 46.7 cm (31 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.) framed: 90.8 x 55.5 cm (35 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Chester Dale Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.