Nude on a Blue Cushion

{{Short description|Painting by Amedeo Modigliani}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = Nude on a Blue Cushion

| image = Amedeo Modigliani - Nude on a Blue Cushion (1917).jpg

| wikidata = Q20088074

| artist = Amedeo Modigliani

| year = 1917

| medium = Oil on linen

| movement = Expressionism

| height_metric = 65.4

| width_metric = 100.9

| metric_unit = cm

| museum = National Gallery of Art

}}

Nude on a Blue Cushion is an oil painting by Amedeo Modigliani, completed in 1917. It is currently on display at the National Gallery of Art.{{Cite web|title=Nude on a Blue Cushion|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46521.html#bibliography|access-date=2021-11-15|website=www.nga.gov}} The painting depicts a nude woman relaxing on her side on a blue cushion. It is one of a series of nudes he painted from 1916-1919 commissioned by art dealer Leopold Zborowski. When the collection was displayed in Paris, the police reportedly shut it down on its opening day for its obscenity.{{Cite web|last=artincontext|date=2021-11-10|title="Reclining Nude" Amedeo Modigliani - Modigliani's Reclining Woman|url=https://artincontext.org/reclining-nude-amedeo-modigliani/|access-date=2021-11-15|website=artincontext.org|language=en-US}}