This work is a preparatory drawing for a portrait painted by Amedeo Modigliani in the last year of his life. He added a section of paper in order to show the whole sitter, but abandoned the idea of a full-length portrait in composing the finished piece.
Amedeo Modigliani
Study for the Portrait of Madame Eyraud-Valliant, c.1919
Studio per il ritratto di Madame Eyraud-Vaillant
Pencil on paper
51.5 x 25 cm
