10. Amedeo Modigliani - Female nude. 1916, 92cm x 60cm. Modigliani’s nudes were shocking in their time because they are close-up in the viewers face and are about naked women and nothing more The sleepy nude painting exhibits the preciseness of the sloping torso - the rising of the shoulder to support the blushing cheek and long chin of the drooping head; the thickness of the haunch and thigh which softly take the weight of the oblique posture, upright but half-asleep..