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Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought after. Modigliani was born and spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the a…
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culture · Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920) · painter · sculptor · draftsperson · also Amedeo Modigliani, Amīdivū Mūdilyānī, Amedeo Modiljani, Amedeo Modilʹi︠a︡ni, Dedo, Modì
Born 12 July 1884 · Died 24 January 1920 · Q120993
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Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
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2026· 2 entries
Observer: Amedeo Modigliani
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2025· 1 entry
Phys.org: Statisticians estimate the number of unattributed paintings of Amedeo Modigliani
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2019· 1 entry
Barron's: Christie’s to Offer Rare Amedeo Modigliani Sculpture
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2018· 1 entry
Twenty fake Modiglianis were seized at an exhibition in Genoa
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Amedeo Modigliani’s Identity Politics
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2016· 1 entry
Artnet: Will This Portrait of Amedeo Modigliani’s Tragic Lover Yield $40 Million at Sotheby’s?
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2015· 1 entry
Artnet: 7 Intriguing Facts About Amedeo Modigliani on His Birthday
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2013· 1 entry
Parisot was arrested by the Italian Art forgery unit after a two-year investigation (following a largely advertised exhibition in Catania, presenting original artworks); the police seized works attributed to the artist,
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2012· 1 entry
To aid in the researching of Modigliani artworks
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2011· 1 entry
Peter Schjeldahl, reviewing Meryle Secrest's book Modigliani: A Life, wrote:
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2006· 2 entries
"Review: Modigliani at the Royal Academy of Arts, London", The Guardian
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About 6,000 documents from the estate—believed to be the only ones existing—were moved permanently from France to Italy
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1984· 1 entry
Students carved three stone heads in a Modigliani style, causing a sensation when they were "discovered" in a canal in Livorno, Italy
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1920· 5 entries
Died 1920-01-24.
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After not hearing from him for several days, a neighbour checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed, delirious and holding onto Hébuterne
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“Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.”
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“The function of art is to struggle against obligation.”
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“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.”
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1918· 1 entry
Modigliani left Paris with Hébuterne to escape from the war and travelled to Nice and Cagnes-sur-Mer
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1917· 2 entries
That created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year
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(3–30 December): Solo exhibition, Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris
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1916· 1 entry
Modigliani befriended the Polish poet and art dealer Léopold Zborowski and his wife Anna
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1914· 1 entry
On her first evening there the smiling man at the next table in the café introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew"
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1909· 1 entry
Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle
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1906· 2 entries
Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde
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Moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși
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1902· 1 entry
Modigliani continued what was to be a lifelong infatuation with life drawing, enrolling in the Scuola Libera di Nudo, or "Free School of Nude Studies", of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence
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1901· 2 entries
Whilst in Rome, Modigliani admired the work of Domenico Morelli, a painter of dramatic religious and literary scenes
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Clearly indicate that he is being more and more influenced by the thinking of Nietzsche
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-07-12.
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