Musée de l’Orangerie · 1915
Red-Haired Girl
Amedeo Modigliani
Painted the same year as the Guillaume portrait, with the same simplified mask-like language, but here Modigliani softens the geometry for a younger, more informal sitter — the girl's identity was never recorded, one of several "types" Modigliani painted without naming his models.
Why it matters
Painted the same year as the Guillaume portrait, with the same simplified mask-like language, but here Modigliani softens the geometry for a younger, more informal sitter — the girl's identity was never recorded, one of several "types" Modigliani painted without naming his models.
Look closer
Compare the loose, patchwork background — blocks of ochre, brown and dark blue laid in flat rectangles behind her — with the smooth modelling of her face; notice her hair is built from short, energetic strokes rather than the calm outline used everywhere else.
Painted the same year as his Guillaume portrait, this is one of many "anonymous" heads Modigliani produced during his most productive Montparnasse years — sitters he never named, unlike the dealers, poets and artists he portrayed by name.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €4.6–9.2 million.
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