Max Jacob and his friends

PORTRAIT OF MAX JACOB

Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)

1915

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Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920) Portrait de Max Jacob, 1915-1916 - Crayon graphite sur papier, 34.5 x 26.5 cm - Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper © Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

Pencil on paper

2005-16-1

Purchased at a private sale in 2005 with assistance from Mécénat-Bretagne, the Heritage Fund of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Region of Brittany.

H. 34,5 cm - L. 26,5 cm

Modigliani meets Max Jacob in 1906.  They continue to go to Montmartre, then to Montparnasse.  In 1914 and 1915, the Italian draws several portraits of his friend and paints two masterful works.  This drawing, which portrays the poet as a bit of a “snob and a man about town”, is a study for the painted portrait kept at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westphalen in Düsseldorf.

 

Max Jacob and his friends

PORTRAIT OF MAX JACOB

Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920)

1915

Enlarge picture jpg 162Ko (See the caption hereafter) (modal window)
Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920) Portrait de Max Jacob, 1915-1916 - Crayon graphite sur papier, 34.5 x 26.5 cm - Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper © Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

Pencil on paper

2005-16-1

Purchased at a private sale in 2005 with assistance from Mécénat-Bretagne, the Heritage Fund of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Region of Brittany.

H. 34,5 cm - L. 26,5 cm

Modigliani meets Max Jacob in 1906.  They continue to go to Montmartre, then to Montparnasse.  In 1914 and 1915, the Italian draws several portraits of his friend and paints two masterful works.  This drawing, which portrays the poet as a bit of a “snob and a man about town”, is a study for the painted portrait kept at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westphalen in Düsseldorf.

 

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