Flower Vendor
1919
In this striking portrait from 1919, Amedeo Modigliani captures a woman with his signature impossibly long neck and those haunting, pupil-less blue eyes. While influenced by the geometric simplification of Cubism, he developed a unique style where he famously refused to paint pupils, claiming he would only paint eyes once he truly knew a subject's soul. Dressed in somber black against a warm, rusty-orange background, she sits with a quiet dignity just a year before the artist's tragic death.
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