Oil Paintings Reproductions

About The Artist - Amedeo Modigliani (July 12, 1884 - January 24, 1920)

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian artist, who spent most of his life in France painting and sculpting.

About The Painting - Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl

While Amedeo Modigliani was born in Italy, he settled in France and pursued his painting and sculpting career there. Influenced by many different art movement and genres of art, he was especially influenced by primitive art.

With an idiosyncratic and original portfolio of work, such as Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl, Modigliani was never able to make much money by selling his paintings. Whatever little he did make, he spent on drinking and drugs and he died at 35 due to tubercular meningitis in Paris.

After his affair with Beatrice Hastings was over, Modigliani started working on some drawings at the Academie Colarossi. Here, in 1917, he met the beautiful Jeanne Hebuterne - a 19 year old girl. The artist and the nymph started living together and Modigliani started painting her.

His portraits of Jeanne show some real tenderness while many other depict her to be impassive and curiously graceless. Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl is one such painting of Jeanne that illustrates the fact that she was tender and graceful. Modigliani's early work was influenced by that of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. However, around 1907, he soon became fascinated with the artistic style of Paul Cézanne. But like any other artist, Modigliani soon developed his own unique and distinct style.

And truth be told, Amedeo Modigliani's style can't be categorized enough with other artists. A mix of primitive art and Oriental influence reflects in his portraits and sculptures. His use of colors and brush strokes was different, while his subjects were mostly women such as Jeanne Hebuterne.

The painting, Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl is a very famous painting by Modigliani, a flamboyant but poverty stricken painter who died penniless and two days after his death, Jeanne, nine months pregnant with his child, threw herself out of a fifth floor window, killing their unborn child and herself.