Modigliani, Amedeo

Modigliani, Amedeo
(1884–1920)
   Italian-French painter. Modigliani came from a merchant family in Leghorn, Italy, and in 1905 settled in France, where he was associated in the School of Paris with three Jewish artists of Eastern European background - CHAGALL, PASCIN and SOUTINE. Modigliani lived in abject poverty and sickness, exacerbated by drink, drugs and his many affairs. It was only after his death at the age of thirty-six that the art world discovered his talent-and leading museums bid for the hundreds of paintings, thousands of water colours and drawings, and a small number of sculptures.
   He was influenced by Cézanne, the early Cubists and African sculpture, but developed a distinctive style, painting elongated portraits and nudes with subtle, curving lines and delicate colour.

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  • Modigliani, Amedeo — (7/12/1884 Livorno 1/25/1920 Paris) (Italy / France)    Painter and sculptor. Studied with the painter G. Micheli. Best known for his unique style of rendering female figures, including nudes, in exaggerated proportions.    Reproductions:… …   Dictionary of erotic artists: painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers and illustrators

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  • Modigliani, Amedeo — (1884 1920)    Italian painter and sculpture. Born in Livorno, he studied at a local art school and later in Florence and Venice. In 1906 he went to Paris where he mixed with fellow emigres. In the early 1920s he was stricken with tubercular… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

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