Shop art print and framed art Femme à l'éventail (Lunia Czechowska) by Amedeo Modigliani

Woman with a Fan is a painting by Amedeo Modigliani in 1919, consisting of a portrait of Lunia Czechowska in a yellow dress with a fan in her hand. It was stolen from the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010 and has not been found. It is one of the last pictures Modigliani painted, a few months before his death, and one of the fourteen portraits he painted of Czechowska, a friend and model. According to Czechowska in her Memoirs, it was bought at the time for 150 francs by Jonas Netter. It was still part of the Netter collection in 1926. It entered the collections of the Petit Palais, then the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 1953 through a bequest from Dr Maurice Girardin. It was exhibited at the Ca' Pesaro in Venice from 1 February to 30 April 2006, in exchange for Nude with Mirror by Pierre Bonnard. It was one of five paintings stolen from the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris on 20 May 2010. Lunia Czechowska is seated, framed at three-quarters of her height, seen from the front. Behind her is a chest of drawers, above which hangs a frame containing an unidentified image, of which only the corner can be seen. The cherry-red wall, painted in thick brushstrokes, contrasts with the canary yellow of the dress Czechowska is wearing over a white short-sleeved blouse. Her left hand rests on her lap, while her right hand, with a ring on the little finger, holds a fan at chest height, the folds of which seem to extend over her fingers. Her neck and [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the post-impressionism style.

 

« Femme à l'éventail (Lunia Czechowska) » is kept at Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

 

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