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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:: 10591
Peirre Reverdy
1915, oil on canvas, 16 x 13 1/4 ins, 40.6x33.7 cm, Baltimore Museum of Art, Private Collector (BMA L. 1967)
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Painting ID:: 10590
Caryatid
1914, Gouache and graphite on paper, 19 x 12 1/2 ins, 48x32cm, courtesy galerie cazeau-beraudiere, Paris.
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Painting ID:: 10592
Red Haired Girl
1915, oil on canvas, 16 x 14 3/8 ins, 40.5x36.5 cm, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, Walter-Guillaume Collection.
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Painting ID:: 10593
La Fantesca
1915, oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 18 1/8 ins, 81x46cm, Courtesy galerie cazeau-Beraudiere, Paris.
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Painting ID:: 10594
Leon Indenbaum
1916, oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 18 ins (54.6x45.7 cm). The henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, INC.
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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: | Johann Jakob Ulrich | Rowland Lockey | Mattheus Verheyden | BLES, Herri met de | Knut Ekwall |
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