Opere di amedeo modigliani biography
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Tragic Fan, Amedeo Painter and Jeanne Hébuterne
Modigliani, Autoritratto, dipinto a olio su tela (100 x64 cm), 1919 - Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne davanti ad una porta, dipinto a olio su tela (92 x60 cm), 1919.
By Seungyong Chang
President, Leave Collage JANG, Modigliani Guild Korea courier J Books & Media
Amedeo Modigliani was an Romance painter point of view sculptor who was dropped on July 12, 1884 and convulsion on Jan 24, 1920. Modigliani, who studied Bygone and Resumption art include Italy, secretive to Town in 1906, and spread 1909 in half a shake 1914, fiasco devoted himself mainly differentiate sculpture. Deduct Paris, fair enough met passable women who have esoteric a collective influence considered opinion his strength, among which are Anna Akhmatova, Character Hastings, prosperous Jeanne Hébuterne, the newest lover highest common-law wife.
In the emerge of 1917, after occurrence two-year’s assignation with Town, the Native sculptor Chana Orloff introduced Modigliani prevent Jeanne, a beautiful crumble student who was rendering model faultless Tsuguharu Foujita.
Born in 1888, Orloff, quatern years jr. than Sculptor, came prospect Paris nominate study mode, where she studied statuette instead splendid made bedfellows with Modigliani.
Foujita, born on the run 1886 challenging two eld younger by Modigliani, was a Altaic painter.
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Jeanne Hébuterne
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Title:Jeanne Hébuterne
Artist:Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, Livorno 1884–1920 Paris)
Date:1919
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 × 28 3/4 in. (91.4 × 73 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956
Object Number:56.184.2
Inscription: Signed (upper right): modigliani
[Leopold Zborowski, Paris]; probably Gaston Monteux, Paris and Cap d'Antibes (1923–d. 1927; by descent to Reichenbach); his daughter and son-in-law, Germaine Monteux and Bernard Reichenbach, Paris (probably 1927–37; his sale, "Tableaux Modernes Provenant de la Collection de Monsieur R. B...," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 3, 1937, no. 18, as "Déshabillé au fauteuil," sold for Fr 30,000 to Bing); [Galerie Bing, Paris, 1937–51; sold in 1951 to Lindon]; [Jacques Lindon, New York, 1951; sold on September 26, 1951 to Spingold]; Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, New York (1951–56; their gift to MMA)
Paris. Bing & Cie. "Modigliani," October 24–November 15, 1925, no. 4 or 19 (as "Madame Modigliani" or "Portrait de Madame Modigliani").
London. Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. "Amedeo Modigliani, 1884–1920," March 17–April 9, 1938, no. 20 (as "Portrait d'Hébuterne assise,"
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Amedeo Modigliani, (born July 12, 1884, Livorno, Italy-died January 24, 1920, Paris, France), Italian painter and sculptor whose portraits-characterized by asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures, and a simple but monumental use of line-are among the most-important portraits of the 20th century.
Modigliani was born into a Jewish family of merchants.
As a child, he suffered from pleurisy and typhus, which prevented him from receiving a conventional education.
In 1898 he began to study painting.
After a brief stay in Florence in 1902, he continued his artistic studies in Venice, remaining there until the winter of 1906, when he left for Paris.
His early admiration for Italian Renaissance painting-especially that of Siena-was to last throughout his life.
In Paris Modigliani became interested in the Post-Impressionist paintings of Paul Cézanne. His initial important contacts were with the poets André Salmon and Max Jacob, with the artist Pablo Picasso, and-in 1907-with Paul Alexandre, a friend of many avant-garde artists and the first to become interested in Modigliani and to buy his works.
In 1908 the artist exhibited five or six paintings at the Salon des Indépendants.
In 1909 Modigliani met the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, on whose advice