Standing Nude
ca. 1910
Medium
Graphite on white paper
Dimensions
16 15/16 x 10 1/4 in. (43 x 26 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.381
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Art Historical Context
Amedeo Modigliani’s *Standing Nude*, created around 1910, offers a rare early glimpse into the Italian artist’s evolving approach to the human figure. Executed in graphite on paper, the drawing belongs to the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Modigliani, who had recently settled in Paris, was beginning to distill the lessons of African sculpture and contemporary modernism into his signature style of graceful, elongated forms. Though Modigliani is best known for his painted female nudes, this male figure reveals his interest in the expressive potential of line. With e...
About the Artist
Amedeo Modigliani · 1884–1920
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor whose elegant, elongated figures and portraits rank among the most instantly recognizable images in modern art. Born in Livorno, Tuscany, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he studied at the academies of Florence and Venice before moving permanently to Paris in 1906, where he immersed himself in the bohemian artistic milieu of Montmartre...