Amedeo Modigliani
Young Woman of the People1918

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Oil painting portrait of a seated woman with a black bob, elongated features, and rosy skin, wearing a black shawl over a gray dress, interior setting behind her

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: Wayne, Kenneth. Modigliani and the Artist of Montparnasse. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2002.
Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, October 14-November 13, 1971, for the benefit of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1971.
The Armand Hammer Collection: October 2-December 30, 1969. Memphis: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1969.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
Fraquelli, Simonetta and Nancy Ireson, eds. Modigliani. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2017.
King, Annette, Isabelle Duvernois, Joe Fronek, Joyce H. Townsend, and Silvia A. Centeno. "The Modigliani Technical Research Study: Modigliani in the South of France." Burlington Magazine 160 no.1382 (May 2018): 394-399.
Patani, Osvaldo. Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, dipinti. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1991.

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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: Wayne, Kenneth. Modigliani and the Artist of Montparnasse. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2002.
Amedeo Modigliani; loan exhibition, October 14-November 13, 1971, for the benefit of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1971.
The Armand Hammer Collection: October 2-December 30, 1969. Memphis: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1969.
Muchnic, Suzanne. LACMA So Far: Portrait of a Museum in the Making. San Marino, California: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2015.
Fraquelli, Simonetta and Nancy Ireson, eds. Modigliani. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2017.
King, Annette, Isabelle Duvernois, Joe Fronek, Joyce H. Townsend, and Silvia A. Centeno. "The Modigliani Technical Research Study: Modigliani in the South of France." Burlington Magazine 160 no.1382 (May 2018): 394-399.
Patani, Osvaldo. Amadeo Modigliani: Catalogo generale, dipinti. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1991.

Related Unframed

This Weekend at LACMA

September 21, 2018
Victor Guzman

Amedeo Modigliani’s Young Woman of the People

November 15, 2016
Chi-Young Kim

Happy Birthday to Amedeo Modigliani!

July 12, 2016
Katia Zavistovski