1940s After A. Modigliani "Painter Kisling", First Edition Swiss Full-Color Print

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An excellent large vintage First Edition full-color print of portrait of The Painter Kisling (1918-1919) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from … Read more An excellent large vintage First Edition full-color print of portrait of The Painter Kisling (1918-1919) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a First Limited Edition art folio published in Geneva, Switzerland by Albert Skira in the 1940s. Printed on on one side of heavy paper. Numbered in the lower right corner. Detailed. Colors are deep and rich. Excellent condition - never framed.

Overall 9.25"W x 11.75"H
Image 6"W x 10.7"H

Moïse Kisling (1891 – 1953) was a Polish-born French painter. He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946. A fine painter in his own right, he was one of Modigliani's closest friends. When the artist died of tuberculosis in 1920, Kisling was at his bedside; it was he who made the arrangements for his funeral as well as for that of Jeanne Hébuterne, who committed suicide a few hours after Modigliani's death. With its simplicity, freshness and spontaneity, this portrait well conveys Kisling's kindly, impulsive nature. See less