Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Lindbergh

Amedeo Modigliani’s modern aesthetic was characterized by his subject’s mask-like faces, which drew inspiration from African art, and his elongated figures. In 1919, Modigliani painted the polish woman Lunia Czechowska, in Woman with a Fan. Two years before the painting was stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Peter Lindbergh photographed Julianne Moore wearing a marigold Calvin Klein sweater-dress in homage to Modigliani for Harper’s Bazaar’s June, 2008 issue.


Woman with a Fan (Lunia Czechowska) by Amedeo Modigliani, 1919

Woman with a Fan (Lunia Czechowska) by Amedeo Modigliani, 1919

Peter Lindbergh, Harper's Bazaar June, 2008

Peter Lindbergh, Harper’s Bazaar June, 2008

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