The current exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) offers an affecting presentation of the works of the Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920), one of the most intriguing ...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians ...
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 ...
In the first room of the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit “Modigliani Unmasked,” a case displays two issues of La Libre Parole, the early-20th century French anti-Semitic newspaper founded by Édouard ...
The early phase of the Amadeo Modigliani’s artistic career, which was spent in Paris at the turn of 20th century, will be the focus of a new exhibition at New York’s Jewish Museum in September.
He was an alcoholic painter fixated on women and incapable of making a living in early 20th century Paris. He died at the age of 35, immediately followed by his lover, who jumped from a window while ...
The visual key to Amedeo Modigliani's self-conscious Jewishness, says Mason Klein, the curator of "Modigliani Unmasked," an exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum, is a small sketch called ...
Modigliani quickly assumed the pose of the flamboyant bohemian: he frequented the artist hangouts of Montmartre and later Montparnasse, wore a bright silk scarf knotted around his neck in place of a ...
As rock-star artists go, Amedeo Modigliani is an unlikely candidate. Born in 1884 on a kitchen table in Livorno, Italy, to Sephardic Jewish parents who soon declared bankruptcy, Modigliani was plagued ...
More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the ...
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