This is a unique, well balanced Portrait of a woman in white. It has very light and soft tones of colors and the unique elongation of facial features typical of the artist. The artwork is signed Modigliani on the verso in the lower left of the painting. There is a gallery number on the verso as well. - Attributes: In the manner of Amedeo Modigliani and signed on verso - Media: Watercolor and gouache on paper - Dimensions metric: 20.4 by 25.4 cm - Dimensions imperial: 8 by 10 inches - Artist biography: Amedeo Modigliani once said "Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator." Modigliani's portraiture achieves a unique combination of specificity and generalization. His portraits convey his subjects' personalities, while his trademark stylization and use of recurring motifs - long necks and almond-shaped eyes - lends them uniformity. Modigliani's portraiture also serves as a vital art historic record, comprising a gallery of major figures of the Ecole de Paris circle, to which he belonged following his move to Paris in 1906. The work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi was perhaps the single most important influence on Modigliani's creative development. Although Modigliani is best known as a painter, he focused on sculpture early on in his career, and, some writers have argued, may have regarded his true calling as that of sculptor. The sculptures Modigliani created in 1909-14, of which twenty-five carvings and one woodcut survive, were highly influential on his work as a painter, helping him arrive at the abstracted and linear vocabulary of his painting.