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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:: 10600
Portrait of Paul Guillaume ( Novo Pilota )
1915, oil on cardboard mounted on plywood, 41 3/8 x 29 1/2 ins (105x75 cm), Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, Walter-Guillaume Collection.
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Painting ID:: 10601
Portrait of a girl ( Victoria )
1917, oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 23 1/2 ins (80.6x59.7 cm). Tate Gallery, London, Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop, 1933.
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Painting ID:: 10602
Portrait of Max Jacob
1916, oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 ins (73x60 cm), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf.
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Painting ID:: 10603
Portrait of Anna ( Hanka ) Zborowska
1916, oil on canvas, 30 x 17 3/4 ins (76.2x45.1 cm), Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lent by The Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York.
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Painting ID:: 10604
Portrait of the Painter Manuel Humbert
1916, oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 25 3/4 ins (100.2 x 65.5 cm ). National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Felton Bequest, 1948.
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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 friedrich august tischbein | Edward Sherrif Curtis | Giacinto Gigante | Markus Pernhart | Bartolomeo Vivarini |
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