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Amedeo Modigliani
Italian Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1884-1920
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 ?C January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in northwestern Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's œuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and an excessive use of alcohol and narcotics, at the age of 35.
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Painting ID:: 2850
Nude, Looking Over Her Right Shoulder
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Painting ID:: 2851
Portrait de Mario
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Painting ID:: 10513
portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne
oil on canvas, 18x11 inches(45.7x28cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Mrs. Kate Lancaster Brewster, 1948.
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Painting ID:: 10514
Antonia
1915, Oil on canvas, 32 1/4x18 1/8 ins(82x46cm). Musee de 'Orangerie, Paris, Walter-Guillaume Collection, 1963-70.
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Painting ID:: 10515
self portrait
1919, oil on vanvas. 39 3/8x25 3/8 ins.(100x64.5cm) Meseu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo.
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Amedeo Modigliani
Italian Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1884-1920
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 ?C January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in northwestern Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's œuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and an excessive use of alcohol and narcotics, at the age of 35.
. Related Artists to Amedeo Modigliani: | Henry Clarence Whaite | Arthur Elsley | Eugene Boudin | Axel Johan Fagerplan | The Hon.Eleanor Vere Boyle |
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