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Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of the Painter Frank Haviland
c. 1914, Oil on board
Gianni Mattioli Collection
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
This vivid portrait, painted in Paris in the second half of 1914, marks Amedeo Modigliani’s return to painting after a period of five years dedicated to sculpture. The sitter, Frank Burty Haviland, was a wealthy English amateur: a poet, a collector of African art, and a painter of small talent, who occupied a large studio near to Picasso’s and was known disparagingly to his friends as “Le Riche.”
Amedeo Modigliani
Portrait of the Painter Frank Haviland
c. 1914, Oil on board
Gianni Mattioli Collection
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
This vivid portrait, painted in Paris in the second half of 1914, marks Amedeo Modigliani’s return to painting after a period of five years dedicated to sculpture. The sitter, Frank Burty Haviland, was a wealthy English amateur: a poet, a collector of African art, and a painter of small talent, who occupied a large studio near to Picasso’s and was known disparagingly to his friends as “Le Riche.”