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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:: 10516
caryatid
1913-1914. ol on cardboard. 23 5/8x21 1/4 ins(60x54cm). Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centure Geoges Pompidou, Paris, Purchase, 1949.
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Painting ID:: 10517
Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
1916, oil on canvas. 31 3/4 x 21 1/4 ins(80.7x54cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.
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Painting ID:: 10518
Portrait of Paul Alexandre in Front of a Window
1913, oil on canvas. 31 7/8 x 18 ins(81x45.6cm). Mesee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.
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Painting ID:: 10519
Portrait of Max Jacob
1920, oil on canvas. 36 1/2 x 23 3/4 ins(93x60cm). Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Mary E.Johnston.
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Painting ID:: 10520
Seated Nude
1916, oil on canvas. 36 3/8 x 23 1/2 ins(92.4x59.8cm). Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London.
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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: | Johann Peter Krafft | Alexandre Calame | Theodore Heuck | William Vincent Cahill | Franciszek Kostrzewski |
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