Grande Odalisque Caravaggio having met when Modigliani first

having met when Modigliani first visited Paris in 1906 and living in the art community of Bateau-Lavoir

His enigmatic smile and curly hair would be typical of Leonardo's way

with on the one hand warm tones (as in the scarlet coat on the right) and on the other hand the cold tones (as in the white sheet on the left): this symbolic use of colors makes it possible to stage a form of dialogue between life and death

whom he married in 1890

These small two-colored circles make us think of planets or stars and the large circles represent their orbits

Grande Odalisque Caravaggio having met when Modigliani firstExhibited at the Salon of 1819, this large reclining nude represents a Western woman in an oriental decor: fly swatter in peacock feathers, opium pipe near an incense burner, turban on her head. The pose of the back is original, as is the elongated odalisque. This is a fantasized harem figure. Ingres, who has never made the trip to the East but is a reader of travelogues, gives in here fully to the romanticized vision of the universe of the Ottoman