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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:: 10595
Doctor Devaraigne ( Le beau major )
1917, oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/8 ins ( 55x46 cm ). Alice Warder Garrett Collection, The Evergreen House Foundation and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
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Painting ID:: 10596
Madam Pompadour
1915, oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 19 1/2 ins (60.6x49.5 cm), The Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Winterhotham Colletion.
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Painting ID:: 10597
Pierrot
1915, oil on cardboard, 16 7/8 x 10 5/8 ins (43x27 cm), Statens Museum For Kunst, Copenhagen, Collection J.Rump.
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Painting ID:: 10598
Paul Guillaume
1915, oil on board, 29 1/2 x 20 1/2 ins, (74.9x52.1 cm), Toledo Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. C. Lockhart Mckelvy.
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Painting ID:: 10599
Moise Kisling
1915, oil on canvas, 14 5/8 x 11 3/8 ins(37x28 cm), Pinacoteca de Brera, Milan (Emilio and Maria Jesi Donation)
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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: | Santo angelo | PRETI, Mattia | Mendham, Robert | Pieter Claesz | Ralph Earl |
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