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May 15, 2018 · Just over a century later, the painting of the defiant nude woman has sold for $157.2m (£115m) at an auction in New York City. The figure paid for the work was $139m but the buyer's premium ...
Apr 24, 2018 · Sotheby’s has announced that “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)” (1917) by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, which depicts a naked French woman in repose, will lead its Impressionist ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 60.6 cm × 92.7 cm (23.9 in × 36.5 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Reclining Nude is a painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Done in oil on canvas in 1917, the painting was one of Modigliani's celebrated series of nudes. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nov 10, 2015 · A painting by Amedeo Modigliani fetched $170.4 million at an auction Monday, setting a world record for the artist and achieving the second highest price ever garnered for a work of art at auction.
Amedeo Modigliani (Leghorn, 1884 - Paris, 1920) falls into a category of artists who decided to leave their native country and move to France. Paris, at the beginning of the 20th century, was the cradle of culture, of modernity, as well as a place of exchange and updating for poets, sculptors, painters, and philosophers.
