Why it matters
A girl in a blue Sunday dress with a gold cross looks straight at us with large almond-shaped eyes, her face stylised like an African mask. Modigliani's elongated forms draw on Parmigianino and Botticelli.
Did you know?
- It was painted around 1918.
- Modigliani painted more than 300 portraits between 1915 and 1920.
- It was donated to the National Gallery of Denmark in 1928.
Based on the Wikipedia article Alice (painting) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
