Reclining Nude
1917 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920)
- Year
- 1917
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 60.6 × 92.7 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Expressionism
A woman lies on a red couch with her arms folded behind her head and her eyes turned toward the viewer, her long body stretched across the whole width of the canvas against a dark ground, with a white pillow and sheet at the corners. Modigliani painted it in Paris in 1917 as one of a series of about two dozen large nudes commissioned by his dealer Léopold Zborowski, who provided the studio and the models. When the series was shown at the Galerie Berthe Weill in December 1917, the police closed the exhibition on the opening day. The elongated figure, the mask-like face and the thin, continuous outline come from his years as a sculptor and his study of African and archaic art. This version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A long nude on a red couch against a dark ground belongs in a bedroom, over the bed or dresser at 24×36 in black. It wants a deep wall, red, charcoal or green, and low lamplight; it is not for a family room or hallway.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1917)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bedroom, living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
