# Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, in Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani painted this in 1916, aged 32. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the museum's label:

> Amedeo Modigliani created his finest paintings between 1914 and his premature death in 1920. Focusing on a limited range of subjects, mainly portraits and nudes, he developed a highly distinctive style of sensitively elongated forms.

_Text from the Art Institute of Chicago._

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## The work

- Date: 1916
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 81.3 × 54.3 cm (32 × 21 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.221
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Amedeo Modigliani](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/amedeo-modigliani), Italian, 1884–1920

Modigliani trained in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906, where he lived the precarious life of Montmartre and Montparnasse.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Amedeo Modigliani's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-amedeo-modigliani?hang=748) (8 works)
- [More Early modernism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-modernism?hang=748) (68 works)
- [20th-century Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/20-italy?hang=748) (4 works)

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