Nu couché (Long Museum)
1917 · Oil on canvas · Private collection
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About this work
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 60 × 92 cm
- Collection
- Private collection (Long Museum, Shanghai)
- Movement
- Expressionism
A woman lies on a red couch with her arms raised behind her head and her eyes half closed, her long body painted in a single warm ochre against a dark red blanket and a white pillow, her face reduced to the almond eyes and small mouth of all Modigliani's sitters. It belongs to the series of about thirty nudes he painted in Paris in 1916 and 1917 for his dealer Léopold Zborowski, whose exhibition at the Berthe Weill gallery in December 1917 was closed by the police on its opening day for indecency; the directness of the gaze and the visible body hair were the offence. The painting passed through the collection of the Turin industrialist Riccardo Gualino and was sold at Christie's in New York in 2015 for 170 million dollars to the Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian, who shows it at his Long Museum.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A long reclining nude in warm ochre against red and white, a wide painting for a bedroom or dressing room at 24×16 in black. Deep red, charcoal or warm grey walls suit it; pair it with the Met's Reclining Nude.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1917)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bedroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×16. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
Is this the whole painting, or a crop?
Is Nu couché (Reclining Nude) in the public domain?
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When was Nu couché (Reclining Nude) painted, and in what medium?
What size works above a sofa or bed?
About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
