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Portrait of Maude Abrantes by Amedeo Modigliani, 1908
Not much seems to survive about who Maude Abrantes actually was — this portrait's about all there is. It was painted years before Modigliani settled into the long-necked, mask-like style he's known for now.
Erisava: The blues and golds around her feel warm, but her face doesn't.
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Sylvia Gosse by Harold Gilman, 1913
The woman here was apparently an artist herself — an etcher — and by most accounts pretty private, which makes it interesting she agreed to sit for this at all.
Erisava: I see patches of paint more than I see a woman
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Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918) by Anders Zorn, 1900
From what I read, the woman sitting here spent decades collecting musical instruments from all over, and thousands of them ended up going to a museum. He was doing a brisk trade in American portraits around this time, presidents included, so from what I can tell this was a commission like any other.
Erisava: Would this be hanging anywhere if she hadn't been rich?
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Portrait of Katherine S. Dreier by Anne Goldthwaite, 1915
The woman here is supposedly more famous than the painting: from what I've read she collected modern art before most people wanted it, ran a society for it with Marcel Duchamp, and gave huge amounts of it away. She painted too, apparently.
Erisava: Is this finished? I honestly can't tell.