Keywords: amedeo modigliani amedeomodigliani 1914 oil on board oilonboard peggy guggenheim collection peggyguggenheimcollection venice Portrait of the Painter Frank Haviland c. 1914, Oil on board Gianni Mattioli Collection Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice This vivid portrait, painted in Paris in the second half of 1914, marks Amedeo Modigliani’s return to painting after a period of five years dedicated to sculpture. The sitter, Frank Burty Haviland, was a wealthy English amateur: a poet, a collector of African art, and a painter of small talent, who occupied a large studio near to Picasso’s and was known disparagingly to his friends as “Le Riche.” Portrait of the Painter Frank Haviland c. 1914, Oil on board Gianni Mattioli Collection Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice This vivid portrait, painted in Paris in the second half of 1914, marks Amedeo Modigliani’s return to painting after a period of five years dedicated to sculpture. The sitter, Frank Burty Haviland, was a wealthy English amateur: a poet, a collector of African art, and a painter of small talent, who occupied a large studio near to Picasso’s and was known disparagingly to his friends as “Le Riche.” |