Amadeo Modigliani - Female head, 1912
Amadeo Modigliani - Female head, 1912
Published 2018-12-11T15:33:29+00:00
Cubist sculpture by Modigliani scanned at the Centre Pompidou.
Before concentratitng exclusively on painting from 1914 onward, Amedeo Modigliani was essentially a sculptor. A fellow traveller of Cubism, rather than a self-professed Cubist, he crafted works that testify to aesthetic preoccupations similar to those of his comrades. Exhibited in the Cubist room of the 1912 Salon d'Automne, these large, stylistically slender heads are not unrelated to the contemporary sculptures of Brancusi, with whom he visited Italy in the summer of 1908. His stone figures described as having a "Gothic spirit" evoke many primitivist sources from Celtic sculpture to archaic Greek statuary, Khmer Buddhas and the Baoulé masks of the Ivory Coast.
| Date published | 11/12/2018 |
| Complexity | Easy |
| Title | Tête de femme / female head |
| Date | 1912 |
| Medium | Stone |
| Credit | Acquired in 1949 |
| Artist | Amedeo Modigliani |
| Place | Centre Georges Pompidou |