Iris Tree ☱ Modigliani ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Natural a Viennese and Jewish banker

a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer

and several repetitions of the same

She was a highly sought after model

I will paint your eyes

among several others

Iris Tree ☱ Modigliani ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Natural a Viennese and Jewish bankerFemale Nude (1916) by Amedeo Modigliani is a portrait of Iris Tree (27 January 1897 13 April 1968), an English poet, actress, and art model. She was a highly sought after model, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry, sculpted by Jacob Epstein, and photographed by Man Ray. Modigliani painted several nudes between 1916 and 1917, and the depiction of pubic hair was shocking at the time. Police closed