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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:: 25456
Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne (mk39)
c.1918
Oil on canvas
18x11in
Yale University Art Gallery,Bequest of Mrs.Kate Lancaster Brewsate
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Painting ID:: 25457
Self-Portrait (mk39)
1919
Oil on canvas
39 3/8x25 3/8in
Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Univeridade de Sao Paulo.
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Painting ID:: 25459
Caryatid (mk39)
1913-1914
Oil on card-board
23 5/8x21 1/4in
Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris,Purchase
1949
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Painting ID:: 25463
Portrait of Paul Alexandre in Front of a Window (mk39)
1913
Oil on canvas
31 7/8x18in
Musee des Beaux-Arts,Rouen.
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Painting ID:: 25465
Portrait of Max jacob (mk39)
c.1920
Oil on canvas
36 1/2x23 34/in
Cincinnati Art Museum,
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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: | Jan Van Dornicke | Raphael Coxie | Horatio Walker | Anthony Vandyck Copley Fielding | Hans von Marees |
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