Paulette Jordain, one of Amedeo Mogliani’s 1919 portraits from his collection became one of the most valuable Western modern art to be sold in Asia recently during Sotheby’s Hong Kong 50th anniversary autumn sales at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
The Italian painter and sculptor, famed for portraits in modern style worked in France. Paulette Jourdain is one of his works, the subject was the housemaid, assistant and later lover of Modigliani’s dealer Léopold Zbrowski according to Sothesby’s.
