Artist: Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Painting, Sculpture
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Biography:
Born into a Jewish family in Italy, Amedeo Modigliani received his formal training in Florence and Venice, studying the work of 15th century painter, Botticelli. His unique linear style combined this influence with that of sculptor, Constantin Brancusi, whom Modigliani met in 1909. With Brancusi’s assistance, he experimented in stone sculptures under materials became scarce with the outbreak of World War I. Modigliani began painting elongated portraits and nudes, which attracted little praise from critics. His perilous and reckless lifestyle, however, created more attention from the public, and ultimately caused his death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-five. Devastated by his passing, his mistress and model, Jeanne Hebuterne killed herself the following day while carrying Modigliani’s child.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (32)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Amedeo Modigliani, Bust of a Woman, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Female Nude, 19th - 20th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani Title: Nude (Portrait in Red) Date: 1915 Medium: oil and ink wash
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani Title: Portrait of Madame Zborowski Date: 1917 - 1918 Medium: graphite on
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Amedeo Modigliani - To Yvonne 1919 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Reclining Nude, 1917 Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)Oil on canvas; H. 23-7/8, W. 36-1/2 in. (60.6
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Amedeo Modigliani - Little Servant Girl c. 1916 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of a Woman c. 1917-1918 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Head of a Woman c. 1911 limestone Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Head of a Woman 1910-1911 limestone National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Leon Bakst 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Madame Kisling c. 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Café Singer 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Reclining Nude c. 1919 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Anna Zborowska 1917 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Monsieur Deleu 1916 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Nude on a Divan 1918 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Woman with Red Hair 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Madam Pompadour 1915 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Chaim Soutine 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Max Jacob (1876-1944) c. 1916-1917 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of a Young Woman 1918 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Adrienne (Woman with Bangs) 1917 oil on linen National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Nude on a Blue Cushion 1917 oil on linen National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Girl in a Green Blouse 1917 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Gypsy Woman with Baby 1919 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Madame Amedee (Woman with Cigarette) 1918 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Amedeo Modigliani - Portrait of a young woman, seated n.d. oil on card The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
Museum of Fine Arts -
Attributed to Amadeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920 Study of a Seated Nude undated Pencil drawing on
Museum of Fine Arts -
Amadeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884-1920 Sheet of Studies: Two Women Seated at a Table and Three
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Bird in Space, 1923 Constantin Brancusi (French, born Romania, 1876-1957)Marble; (with base) H. 56-3/4, Diam.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Herodias, before 1635 Francesco Cairo (Italian, Lombard, 1607-1665)Oil on canvas; 29 5/8 x 24 5/8

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (19)
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Art Gallery of Ontario: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
The exhibition will demonstrate how the artist’s highly focused body of work - consisting almost entirely of portraiture - reflects this intellectual, religious, and political heritage, despite his uniquely modernist style. Incudes painting...
University Art Museum and Gallery: Linear Grace: Drawing and Sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani
Modigliani began to study painting at the age of fourteen, moving to Paris in 1906. In addition to painting, he also devoted himself to stone carving from 1909 to 1914. His sculptur...
Jewish Museum: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
Known primarily for his paintings of reclining nudes and his portraits with elegantly elongated features, Modigliani was an anomaly among the artists (many of them foreign-born Jews) who were active in the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th ce...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse
Organized by the Albright-Knox, a leading international center of modern and contemporary art, the exhibition will include masterpieces from renowned museums and private collections in America, Europe, and Japan. Many of the works have never be...
Corcoran: At the Edge: A Portuguese Futurist, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso lived in Paris between 1906 and 1915, becoming friends with artists such as Modigliani, Gris, Brancusi, Archipenko and Boccio...
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th ...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Everywhere from Tokyo to Moscow to Washington, D.C., individual collectors set in motion plans for independent institutions, committed to modern and non-Western ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: RENOIR TO PICASSO: Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris
These are paintings from a legendary collection founded by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume, whose remarkable achievement was to persuade wealthy P...
National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...
Changing Room: Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael
he exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering of images. Di...
NoHo Gallery: New Beginnings: Francesco Modigo
Francesco Modigo was born in Trieste, Italy in 1948. He began painting in 1992 as a self-taught artist. Francesco has received several positive reviews through the years, including an award of appreciation for his art from the Dade County of Flori...
Fondazione Prada: Foujita. A Japanese Artist
The exhibition, designed by Pierluigi Cerri, will be housed in the Event Space on the sixth floor of the Prada Epicenter, which was conceived by Herzog & de Meuron and inaugurated last June. Constituting a foretaste of the celebration...
Jewish Museum: Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
The works in this exhibition are from private collections, supplemented with examples from The Jewish Museum’s collection. The collectors of these works share both an admiration for their beauty and an abidi...
National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Artists bring dress and drapery to life, showing us how to see and feel it. In responding to contemporary fashion, they present to each age a compelling image of how clothes should be worn. The exhibition opens with a striking series of paired pai...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
We are very pleased to present this exhibition of modern masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim," said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Renoir to Rothko offers a sweeping overview of painting from th...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Among the highlights of the exhibition are 16 turn-of-the-century paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and 14 by Renoirs dear friend Paul Cézanne. The three most important painters to emerge in France in the first decade of the 20th century are r...
Downtown Initiative For the Visual Arts: Jerry Ross: New and Retrospective Works
"I use the principles of abstraction to organize and compose, sometimes working in a single color while drawing out an infinity of subtle colors within that monochromatic base. My interest in portraiture is inspired by the Italian i macchiaioli, e...
Guggenheim Museum: GUGGENHEIM AND HERMITAGE MUSEUMS ANNOUNCE JOINT INITIATIVE AT THE VENETIAN IN LAS VEGAS
The Las Vegas cooperation between the Hermitage and the Guggenheim is one of the first concrete projects to result from a larger, long-term collaboration agreement between the Hermitage and the Guggenheim that was signed and an...

Further Artwork and Information:

WebMuseum: Modigliani, Amedeo
Amedeo Modigliani - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
ARCHIVES LEGALES AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
Mark Hardens Artchive - Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani - Olgas Gallery
Artdreamguide: Amedeo Modigliani. Biografia di Amedeo Modigliani (Vita di Amedeo Modigliani)
Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Modigliani - Biography
Amedeo Modigliani Online
ARCHIVES LEGALES AMEDEO MODIGLIANI English edition
Amedeo Modigliani on the Internet

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