Caryatid, Front View, Half-Figure
1912
Modigliani fell into a feverish creative trance around 1912, obsessively sketching hundreds of caryatids—ancient architectural columns shaped like women—to hone his style. Here, he channels the African masks he studied at the Trocadéro Museum, giving the figure a neck so long and cylindrical it defies anatomy, and a face reduced to mysterious, almond-shaped slits. It’s a perfect collision of Cubist geometry and primitive mysticism, looking less like a human and more like a sacred totem guarding a temple.
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