'Seated Female Nude, possibly Anna Akhmatova' (1911) by Amedeo Modigliani
He was twenty-six and almost unknown. They met only a few times, but he sent her letters all winter ... In one of them, he wrote "Vous êtes en moi comme une hantise" [you are in me like an obsession]
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Anna Akhmatova on Modigliani (first published in 'London Magazine', Vol. 4 No. 5, 1964)
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Anna Akhmatova (c. 1910)
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A photograph of young Akhmatova and Modigliani's drawing of Anna as acrobat (1911)
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Anna Akhmatova as portrayed by Zinaida Serebriakova in 1922
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