Amedeo Modigliani
Young Woman of the People1918

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Amedeo Modigliani
Italy, 1884-1920
Title: Young Woman of the People
Place Made: Italy
Date Made: 1918
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (89.54 × 64.14 cm)
Credit Line: Frances and Armand Hammer Purchase Fund
Accession Number: M.68.46.2
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: By the time Amedeo Modigliani painted this portrait, he had developed his distinctive style of representing the figure. Here, the young woman’s elongated face and stylized features demonstrate the artist’s interest in a range of art, including African carvings and Cambodian sculptures as well as thirteenth-century paintings and sculptures from his native Italy, all of which he would have been able to view in Paris.The sitter is most likely Germaine Labaye, an aspiring painter and close friend of Jeanne Hébuterne, Modigliani’s partner and frequent model.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist (1884-1920). [Probably consigned in June 1920 to Léopold Zborowski, Paris]; by 1937 to André Lefèvre, Paris; [sold in 1965 at the “Collection André Lefèvre: Tableaux Modernes,” sale, Palais Galliéria, Paris, November 25, 1965, lot 67]; [Hammer Galleries, New York]; Frances (1902-1987) and Armand (1898-1990) Hammer; given in 1968 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Patani, Osvaldo. Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, dipinti. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1991.