Amedeo Modigliani (d’après), Cariatide, sérigraphie, vers 1995

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Amedeo Modigliani : Born in Livorno in 1884, Amedeo Modigliani, was an italian painter and sculptor. In 1898, he entered The Livorno Fine art school in Guglielmo Micheli's workshop. In 1902, he studied at the Florence then Venice Fine art school. Modigliani arrived in Paris in 1906 and settled in Montmartre. In 1909, during a short stay in Livorno he met Constantin Brancusi then settled in Montparnasse. Before exclusively focusing on painting, he let 25 sculptures almost all representing heads. Modigliani's art has successfully integrated the new century. The artist's sources were african and european archaic expressions. His artistic goal was, exclusively in the portrait and the nude, to give a modern aspect to reality. Since 1907, he participated to many Salons, Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'automne, Salon des Tuileries, and Salon des artistes français. The painter died in Paris in 1920. In 1981, the Paris M. A. M. dedicated a retrospective to him.