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Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920), Portrait of a Young Woman, 1918. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of Marjorie Fry Davis and Walter Davis, Jr. through the Davis Family Fund.
Painted during the last few years of his life, Modigliani’s Portrait of a Young Woman illustrates the diagnostic elements of his mature style. Although more naturalistic and organic than his earlier work, his later portraits still bear formal modifications that indicate his desire to create a stable and autonomous image. The figure has been subjected to Modigliani’s mannerist elongations. The face is simplified and flattened, almost mask-like, with the button mouth, spatulate nose, and almond-shaped eyes characteristic of his portraits. The opaque indentation of the eyes is another recurrent feature of Modigliani’s portraiture. By so alienating the woman he emphasizes the autonomy of his image and forces the viewer to relate to it as a painting rather than to the individual depicted.
