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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.

The 33rd work to introduce for this week is “Beatrice Hastings, Seated (1915)”.

This work is a portrait of an expressionist style and an oil painting on canvas with the size of 73.5 x 49.5 cm.

This work is one of many paintings for modeling Beatrice Hastings by Modigliani.

A columnist for the British weekly magazine, “New Age”, she came to Paris as a correspondent in Paris in 1914 and met Modigliani.

Hastings was also a woman who was controversial because of her unusual attire and behavior.

Modigliani and Hastings were lovers for two years, sharing alcohol and drugs, constantly fighting, and arguing.

Modigliani was a genius artistic, talented painter who was famous for wonderfully expressing the characters or personalities of the models in his paintings.

However, this work is unique in that it is painted so that the character or personality of Hastings is not recognized at all.

Painted as simple as if it feels lacking in expressiveness, it seems like this work shows the reappearance of Modigliani's regret for the sculpture.

Elongated neck, oval head, curved and simple contours, everything evokes a sculptural style, especially very similar to the Caryatid style.

There is also no background decoration except Hastings' chair and the chair is rounded to match the curved and rounded model.

Hastings' eyes are drawn without pupils, giving the impression of seeing the background through the eyes.

The model's face and neck were tilted to the right for a balanced composition against the model, who is sitting biased to the left, throughout the canvas.

In addition, Hastings' face and her body including her wrapped arms are in oval form, and it feels like small and large ovals are symmetrically attached.

For the colors used, Modigliani used red and warm colors throughout the work, which make Hastings' shadow look like black smoke from behind her.

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