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Sleeping Nude with Arms Open
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
A recumbent nude by Amedeo Modigliani, arms flung open in a rare gesture of total surrender, rendered in burnished flesh tones and the sculptural contours that define his finest reclining figures.
Description
Description
Most of the reclining figures that Amedeo Modigliani painted in the late 1910s hold their arms close to the body or tuck a hand behind the head, a discreet gesture that keeps the pose contained. Here he opens the arms wide instead, and that single change transforms the whole composition. The body stretches into an expansive diagonal, unguarded and at ease, and you sense that he wanted this particular sleep to read as total rather than merely relaxed.
About Sleeping Nude with Arms Open
The figure fills the canvas horizontally, inviting you to travel the length of her from the tilt of the head down to the outstretched fingertips. Modigliani builds the flesh in soft, burnished tones that seem to hold their own warmth against a darker, simplified ground, and the contour line never breaks: it moves around shoulder, breast, and hip in one continuous, confident sweep that owes as much to his years carving stone as to anything learned at an easel. There is no invitation to look, no theatrical arrangement for a viewer. The tenderness is private, closer to a held breath than a performed pose, and it belongs to the same brief, intense period in which Modigliani found the sculptural, elongated language that defines his mature nudes.
The hand-painted reproduction
When our painters take on a canvas like this, the challenge is less about copying an outline than about recovering a temperature. They mix the flesh tones by eye against the original, layering thin veils of oil colour the way Modigliani did, until the burnished glow sits correctly against the darker field behind it. Every reproduction leaves the studio as a genuine oil painting reproduction, worked by hand on canvas with the brush marks and the slight ridges of pigment still visible on the surface, never a flat print pretending at depth. It is this kind of fine art reproduction, built layer by layer rather than output in a single pass, that lets the warmth of the original pigment survive the journey onto your wall.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas by a trained painter
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives gallery-ready for framing or hanging
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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