Autoritratto modigliani biography

Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy, where he grew up in a Jewish ghetto.
Amedeo Modigliani was born on July 12, 1884, in Livorno, Italy, into a Jewish family.
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who lived and worked from 1884 to 1920.

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Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy, where he grew up in a Jewish ghetto. He studied art in Florence, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and other leading artists of his era. In Paris, he was influenced by fauvism, the avant-garde art movement promoting a strong, emotional, and nonrealistic use of color, and by his friend the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, known for his artistic search of pure form. Modigliani was also influenced by African carvings and masks, particularly in his early work, which was mostly sculpture (1).

In his brief life, which even in childhood was marked by ill health, Modigliani was able to grow as an artist and attain his own distinctive style. He is known for his graceful, simplified, and sympathetic portrayal of the human form. His paintings, mostly portraits and studies of the human figure, are characterized by fine sinuous lines and have a simple, spare, and flat appearance, which gives them an almost classical effect. The figures are elongated, the faces oval, and the shapes ethereal, reminiscen

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the complete amedeo modigliani paintings

By year

1919

Modigliani is now a recognized and interesting artist for all, not poor but barely satisfied (contract with Zborowski was quite agressive),
he comes and goes as he pleases but his illness is on the view again.
All the works present in this page come from the printed catalogues & catalogue raisonne's of the "main experts" I just present them as they have, no personal evaluation at any point.

I do not say none of this are fakes or original, I just present them.
If you have anything to add, contact me.

All the attributed paintings, with provenance, exhibitions, bibliography and other interesting data.
This is by no way a catalogue raisonne, is just a recollection of all the attributed, original or fake.
(is not my work to decide, it's yours as reader)

I can make mistakes and I don't have to apologize, repeat this is not a catalogue raisonne...

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Modigliani’s muse: the evolution of a novel

I first discovered the story of Jeanne Hebuterne from Linda Lappin’s wonderful essay ‘Missing Person in Montparnasse: the case of Jeanne Hebuterne’. I was already a Modigliani fan and was researching his life, shortly after the publication of my novel ‘Een Stille Verdwijning’ (Dutch publication), considering what to write next.

Lappin’s writing drew me in immediately:

An elusive figure inhabits the sundrenched rooms of Modigliani’s Montparnasse studio in Rue de la Grande Chaumiere. She sits quietly in a corner, sketching, paces the corridor with a heavy step, waits at the window, looking down at skeletal trees in an empty courtyard. From Modigliani’s many portraits of her, we recognize the otherworldly gaze, the coppery hair coiled like a geisha’s, the unflattering hint of double chin. It is Jeanne Hebuterne, Modigliani’s last mistress, only friend, and the mother of his daughter, Jeanne Modigliani.

In the essay, Lappin elaborates Jeanne’s story in full, a