# Nude on a Divan, in Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani painted this in 1918, aged 34. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A nude woman reclines across a brown divan against a russet-red wall, her body stretched so wide that her head is pushed into the upper corner and her legs run off the edge of the canvas.

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## The work

- Date: 1918
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 60.2 x 91.7 cm (23 11/16 x 36 1/8 in.) framed: 83.2 x 112.4 cm (32 3/4 x 44 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.10.77
- 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=750) (8 works)
- [More Early modernism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-modernism?hang=750) (68 works)
- [20th-century Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/20-italy?hang=750) (4 works)

## Get it

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