A young woman lies across the full width of the canvas, her body cropped by the edges and pushed close to the viewer. Known in English as Red Nude, it belongs to the series of nudes Modigliani painted in 1917 for his dealer Léopold Zborowski, and probably hung in his only solo show that year, which the police closed. It restates Titian's reclining Venus in simplified modern contours.
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Look for the underarm hair and her faint smile: small touches of frankness that stop the figure from reading as an idealised goddess.
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