Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

===1917 Paris Show===
The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his best-known works. This series of nudes was commissioned by Modigliani's dealer and friend Léopold Zborowski, who lent the artist use of his apartment, supplied models and painting materials, and paid him between fifteen and twenty francs each day for his work.<ref>Klein, Mason, et al., 61–62</ref>

The paintings from this arrangement were thus different from his previous depictions of friends and lovers in that they were funded by Zborowski either for his own collection, as a favor to his friend, or with an eye to their "commercial potential", rather than originating from the artist's personal circle of acquaintances.<ref>Klein, Mason, et al., 62–63</ref>

The Paris show of 1917 was Modigliani's only solo exhibition during his life, and is "notorious" in modern art history for its sensational public reception and the attendant issues of obscenity.<ref name="K2">Klein, Mason, et al., 56</ref> The show was closed by police on its opening day, but continued thereafter, most likely after the removal of paintings from the gallery's streetfront window.<ref name="K2"/>

''[[Nude Sitting on a Divan]]'' is one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. According to the catalogue description from the 2010 sale of the painting at Sotheby's, seven nudes were exhibited in the 1917 show.

''[[Nu couché]]'' realized $170,405,000 at a [[Christie's]], New York, sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the [[List of most expensive paintings|most expensive paintings ever sold]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Robin Pgrebin and Scott Reyburn|title=With $170.4 Million Sale at Auction, Modigliani Work Joins Rarefied Nine-Figure Club|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/arts/with-170-4-million-sale-at-auction-modigliani-work-joins-rarefied-nine-figure-club.html?_r=0|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=10 November 2015}}</ref>

<gallery widths="230" heights="230" caption="Nudes">
File:Amedeo Modigliani 060.jpg|''[[Iris Tree]]'', c. 1916, [[Courtauld Institute of Art]]
File:Amedeo Modigliani Reclining Nude The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|''[[Reclining Nude (Amedeo Modigliani)|Reclining Nude]]'', 1917, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
File:Zittend naakt, Amedeo Modigliani, (1917), Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, 2060.jpg|''[[Seated Nude (1917)|Seated Nude]]'', 1917, [[Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp]]
File:Modigliani nude sdraiato.jpg|''Nude'', 1917, [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]
File:Amedeo Modigliani 063.jpg|''[[Nude Sitting on a Divan]] ("La Belle Romaine")'', 1917
File:Amedeo Modigliani - Nude on a Blue Cushion (1917).jpg|''Nude on a Blue Cushion'', 1917, [[National Gallery of Art]]
File:Modigliani - Nu couché.jpg|''[[Nu couché]]'', 1917–18, sold for $170.4 million in 2015 to [[Liu Yiqian]]<ref name=Connor10Nov>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11986987/Meet-the-Chinese-billionaire-behind-the-record-Amedeo-Modigliani-purchase.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11986987/Meet-the-Chinese-billionaire-behind-the-record-Amedeo-Modigliani-purchase.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Meet the Chinese billionaire behind the record Amedeo Modigliani purchase|work=Daily Telegraph|date=10 November 2015|access-date=10 November 2015|first=Neil|last=Connor}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
File:Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) - Seated Nude, 1918.jpg|''[[Seated Nude (1918)|Seated Nude]]'', 1918, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]
File:Amedeo Modigliani 014.jpg|''[[Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)]]'', 1917 
</gallery>