1947 After Amedeo Modigliani "Seated Nude With a Shirt", First Edition Parisian Lithograph

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An excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph after painting "Nu Assis A La Chemise" (Seated Nude With a Shirt, 1918) … Read more An excellent vintage First Edition offset lithograph after painting "Nu Assis A La Chemise" (Seated Nude With a Shirt, 1918) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a First Limited Edition folio created and published by Les Editions Du Chene in Paris, France, in 1947. Signed in the print. Printed on one side. Hand tipped-in on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork, in French, will be found by lifting the piece. Numbered: X. Excellent condition - minor edge wear on the board, never framed.

Overall 11"W x 15"H
Image 8"W x 10.85"H

Modigliani's nudes scandalized audiences with their depiction of features such as pubic hair and their frank, unadorned sexuality. This is what the artist said about it: "Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator." See less