This is, in my opinion, perhaps the saddest painting ever put to canvas. Who would guess that in less than a year both the artist, his muse, and their unborn child would all be dead. Modigliani aged 35 from ill health, Jeanne at 21, throwing herself from their apartment window 2 days after his death.
The tilt of the head, the vacant stare - eyes like lakes frozen over in winter. Is she looking at you, looking through you, or looking past you into another dimension?
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