Bust of a woman made in terracotta.
It is a reproduction of the head created by the painter and sculptor Modigliani in 1912 and which is present today at the Mineapolis Institute of Art.
Protaganist of the vibrant Parisian artistic community around 1910, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani sought to establish a new sculptural language, largely inspired by African, Greek and ancient Egyptian examples.
The current Head was one of seven exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in October 1912.
A few months earlier, it had been photographed in the artist's studio, making it one of his best-documented works.
Modigliani wanted the heads to be part of “columns of tenderness” within a primordial “temple of beauty” which was not realized.
According to the account of his close friend Jacob Epstein, Modigliani used to place candles on these heads at night. Driven by marijuana, he affectionately embraced the totemic and luminous sculptures
We can specify that this shape of head is strongly inspired by African masks made by tribes in Gabon, Angola or the Republic of Cogon which have the particularity of the elongation of the head such as for example the Ngil de Fang masks which are generally characterized by a face made up of high orbital cavities on each side of a long straight nose separating two fine eye incisions.
Material: terracotta.
A very beautiful contemporary artisanal work for this beautiful object of Art.
For a refined and eternal interior decoration.