Madame Kisling

c. 1917 · Painting

Sul dipinto

Madame Kisling è un dipinto a olio su tela (46,2 x33,2 cm) realizzato nel 1917 dal pittore italiano Amedeo Modigliani.

È conservato presso la National Gallery of Art di Washington.

La donna ritratta è Renée Gros, la sposa di Moïse Kisling, pittore e amico di Modigliani. Era figlia di un comandante della Garde républicaine française.

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Scheda

Numero di inventario: 1963.10.175

Nel frattempo, nella vita di Amedeo Modigliani

Tutta la vita

1916
Léopold Zborowski, friend and dealer
Modigliani befriends the Polish poet and art dealer Léopold Zborowski and his wife Anna; in the artist’s final years Zborowski is his primary dealer and friend. He lends Modigliani his apartment, supplies models and painting materials, and pays him between fifteen and twenty francs a day.
spring 1917
Meets Jeanne Hébuterne
In the spring of 1917 the Ukrainian sculptor Chana Orloff introduces Modigliani to a 19-year-old art student, Jeanne Hébuterne, who has posed for Foujita. Her conservative, devoutly Catholic family renounces her for her liaison with a Jew, but she soon lives with Modigliani anyway and becomes a principal subject of his art.
3 December 1917
His first solo exhibition — and the police
An exhibition of Modigliani’s nudes opens at Berthe Weill’s gallery in Paris, his first solo show in the city. The gallery stands opposite a police station, and the officers, outraged by the nudes, force the show to close on its opening day.
1918
Flight to the south: Cagnes-sur-Mer and Nice
Fearing a German invasion, Modigliani leaves Paris with Jeanne Hébuterne, the Zborowskis and Chaïm Soutine for the south of France, first to Cagnes-sur-Mer and then to Nice. He returns to portraiture and sends the finished canvases to Paris for sale.
1918–1919
Nice: selling for pennies, yet painting his best-known works