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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:: 53472
Head of a young woman
mk232
1908
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 53473
Caryatid Study
mk232
c.1913
ink and pencil
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Painting ID:: 53474
Sheet of Studies with African Sculpture and Caryatid
mk232
c.1912-13
Pencil
26.5x20.5cm
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Painting ID:: 53475
Madame Pompadour
mk232
1905
oil on canvas
61.1x50.2cm
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Painting ID:: 53477
Portrait of Beatrice Hastings
mk232
c.1915
Oil on cardboard
69x49cm
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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: | BORGOGNONE, Ambrogio | BERCKHEYDE, Job Adriaensz | John Wesley Jarvis | franz schubert | Francis Wheatley |
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