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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: / ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni /; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures ...
7 Things You Might Not Know About Modigliani. Poor, misunderstood, drunk, only becoming successful after death: everyone knows the cliché of the tortured bohemian artist, and none fit the description more than Amadeo Modigliani. Known as Modì to his friends (a play on the french word maudit meaning cursed) he was good looking, intelligent ...
Nov 19, 2017 · By Michael Prodger. (Photo By Modigliani's Le Grand Nu) Amedeo Modigliani died in 1920 aged only 35, the victim of tubercular meningitis exacerbated by alcohol and drug abuse. Among his rickety artistic circle in Paris Modigliani had been known as Modi, which happened to be a darkly humorous pun on maudit – cursed – and he had lived down to ...
- Michael Prodger
Apr 28, 2020 · 1. Modigliani Lived A Short and Troubled Life. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was born July 12, 1884 in Livorno, Italy. He was born to a wealthy, bourgeois, and well-educated family of Sephardic Jews (descended from Spain and Portugal). His family encouraged his ambition and exposed him to travel, literature and art.
- Carol Walden
Modigliani quickly assumed the pose of the flamboyant bohemian: he frequented the artist hangouts of Montmartre and later Montparnasse, wore a bright silk scarf knotted around his neck in place of ...
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became ...
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Dec 2, 2017 · Only Modigliani’s “Tête,” a series of modernist limestone masterpieces, remain as an untarnished example of what sculpting sorcery Modigliani was capable of. He produced about 25 known sculptures and they had a significant impact on Modigliani’s style of figure and portrait painting.
