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Viking Eggeling \u2013 a hand-painted reproduction of the Modigliani portrait<\/h2>\n

Viking Eggeling is a Modigliani portrait of 1916, and as a fine art reproduction<\/strong> it is one of the most unusually painted on this shelf: the face is not smoothed into a mask but built from short, visible strokes. The original is held by the LaM museum near Lille. Ours is hand-painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

What is on the canvas<\/h3>\n

The sitter is shown to the chest, slightly turned, against a dark blue-green wall broken at the upper right by a brown rectangle. The hair is reddish-brown and recedes from a high forehead, with a pale parting line running up the centre. The face is long and angular and built from short crossing strokes of pink, ochre and pale green \u2014 the colour is laid on as C\u00e9zanne laid it, not as a smooth field. The eyes are blue-green almonds and, unlike most Modigliani portraits, they carry pupils; the gaze is an actual gaze. The nose is long and straight, the mouth full and orange-red, the left ear prominent. He wears a dark jacket over a pale striped shirt with a dark bow at the throat.<\/p>\n

A chain of ownership the museum publishes by name<\/h3>\n

The LaM publishes not only the catalogue fields but the picture\u2019s ownership history, and it is unusually clear. The canvas was in the collection of Roger Dutilleul, who bought it at the Galerie Percier in Paris on 22 May 1923. It passed by inheritance to Jean Masurel and stayed with him from 1956 to 1979, when Genevi\u00e8ve and Jean Masurel gave it to the museum. Because the chain of names runs unbroken from 1923 onward, it also covers the years 1933 to 1945 \u2014 inside Dutilleul\u2019s Paris collection. The museum states no gap and we invent none. That is more than most institutions publish, so we report it as written.<\/p>\n

The record of the original<\/h3>\n

The original is oil on canvas. The museum measures it 65 cm high and 46 cm wide; we give width first, so on our page it reads 46 x 65 cm, and the specification names the order in words as well. The figures come from the museum\u2019s own page: the year 1916, the medium oil on canvas, the number 979.4.102, donated by Genevi\u00e8ve and Jean Masurel in 1979. The museum\u2019s second record, in the Navigart database, renders only through JavaScript and served us no fields at all, so we state nothing from it. The proportions of our canvas follow the original.<\/p>\n

What you receive<\/h3>\n

Our painter works the picture by hand, oil on canvas, at the size you choose. The subject is upright and restrained in colour \u2014 a dark blue-green ground and one warm mass of face \u2014 so it works well in a study, a library or an entrance hall, where a picture should hold order. Because the face is built from visible strokes, that handwriting only comes into its own at the larger sizes; at small ones it merges. When the canvas is finished we photograph it and send you the photograph for approval before it leaves the studio. You choose the frame in our 3D application, and our reproductions on canvas leave the atelier stretched and ready to hang. Every painting we make is hand-painted and never printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year of creation:<\/td>\n1916<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original size (width \u00d7 height):<\/td>\n46 x 65 cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Painting style:<\/td>\nExpressionism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original technique:<\/td>\nOil on canvas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Located:<\/td>\nLaM \u2013 Lille M\u00e9tropole, museum of modern, contemporary and outsider art, Villeneuve-d\u2019Ascq (inv. 979.4.102), donated by Genevi\u00e8ve and Jean Masurel, 1979<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This shelf also carries the portraits of L\u00e9on Indenbaum and L\u00e9on Bakst \u2014 men likewise painted at their trade, and likewise from Modigliani\u2019s Paris years.<\/p>\n