A signature work from the famous nude series commissioned by agent Léopold Zborowski for Modigliani’s sole lifetime solo exhibition at Galerie Berthe Weill (1917)—infamously shut down by Parisian police on opening day for public indecency. Modigliani stripped the traditional reclining nude (from Titian to Ingres) of mythological framing and academic distancing. Fusing Mannerist linear elongation, sculptural simplification inspired by African masks, and uncompromised modern presence, the work redefined 20th-century figurative art.