Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in ...
‘What an idyll,’ sighed gallery owner Berthe Weill over the censorship of Modigliani’s only solo exhibition in Paris, on Rue Taitbout in 1917. ‘Each policeman in the squad with a naked Modigliani ...
His life was the stuff of Hollywood. His art is the stuff of dreams. Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian painter and sculptor, created groundbreaking works that rivaled or even surpassed those of Pablo ...
When the War broke out in 1914 Modigliani coughed too much to be drafted. He stayed all night in the cafes, sketching for drinks, arguing passionately and with great wit. In one of the cafes he met ...