Woman’s Head

Mediums: limestone.
Location: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the USA).

This work, firmly connected with the appearance of African sculptures, is most decorative in the study of hairstyles, eyelids and eyebrows drawn by two regular lines. The drooping eyelids express the self-deepening that Modigliani sought to convey and which was a kind of reference to meditation. The sculpture was first exhibited at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon d’Automne in 1912. Initially, the work belonged to French artist Frank Burty Haviland, whose famous collection of African art admired Modigliani.