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Amedeo Modigliani. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: / ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni /; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks ...
Jeanne Modigliani. Jeanne Modigliani (born Giovanna Hébuterne, 29 November 1918 – 27 July 1984) [1] was an Italian-French historian of Jewish art mostly known for her biographical research on her father, artist Amedeo Modigliani. In 1958 she wrote the book Modigliani: Man and Myth, later translated into English from the Italian by Esther ...
Jeanne Modigliani. Relatives. André Hébuterne (brother) Jeanne Hébuterne (French pronunciation: [ʒan ebytɛʁn]; 6 April 1898 – 26 January 1920) was a French painter and art model best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani. She took her own life two days after Modigliani died, and is now buried ...
Portrait of Adolphe Basler by Amedeo Modigliani (1916, Brooklyn Museum) Adolphe Basler (born April 28, 1878 in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary; died January 6, 1951 in Paris) was a Polish-French author, gallery owner, art critic, art historian and collector.
The Little Peasant is a 1918 oil painting of a youth by Amedeo Modigliani. [1] It is held in Tate Modern, in London. [1] The painting has a faint chromatism, a delicate color variation and harmony. [2] It was painted in Nice, based on a room where Modigliani also painted Jeanne Hébuterne. [3]
The Boy is a typical Modigliani portrait. The boy's face is elongated into an oval, his eyes are hollow and without pupils. He wears a blue shirt, that seems to blend him into the background. His cheeks are rosy and youthful, which contrasts with the hollow eyes. His face is mask-like and expressionless.
Celebrated in time for his distinctively lanky, almond-eyed interpretations of the human form, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani died in 1920 at the age of just 35, tubercular and ...
Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz is a 1916 oil on canvas painting by Amedeo Modigliani. It depicts Modigliani's friend, the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, standing alongside his seated wife Berthe. Modigliani and Lipchitz had each moved to France at a young age, were both from Jewish backgrounds, and became close friends who frequented the same artistic ...