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Amedeo Modigliani / Portrait of Lunia Czechowska with a Fan

Portrait of Lunia Czechowska with a Fan

1919 · Oil on canvas

Lunia Czechowska, a close friend of the artist, holds a fan in a portrait built from long, sweeping curves.

LocationParis, France
Genreportrait
Dimensions100 × 65 cm

Why it matters

Lunia Czechowska, in a canary-yellow dress, sits against a cherry-red wall holding a fan. It was one of the last paintings Modigliani made, a few months before his death, and it has been missing since it was stolen in 2010.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1919.
  • It is one of fourteen portraits he made of her.
  • It was stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris on 20 May 2010.

Based on the French Wikipedia article La Femme à l'éventail (Modigliani) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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