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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:: 53490
Girl from Mountmartre
mk232
c.1918
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 53492
Portrait of Pablo Picasso
mk232
1915
Oil on canvas
35x26.6cm
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Painting ID:: 53493
Portrait of Blaise Cendras
mk232
1917
Oil on cardboard
60x50cm
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Painting ID:: 53494
Juan Gris
mk232
c.1915
oil on canvas
54x38.1cm
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Painting ID:: 53495
Portrait of Diego Rivera
mk232
1914
Oil on cardboard
100x79cm
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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: | Conrad Meyer | Marie Egner | John Douglas Woodward | j. f. willumsen | Ilya Yefimovich Repin |
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