Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France.
Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. A port city, Livorno had long served as a refuge for those persecuted for their religion, and was home to a large Jewish community. His maternal great-great-grandfather, Solomon Garsin, had immigrated to Livorno in the 18th century as a refugee.
Modigliani was the fourth child of Flaminio Modigliani and his French wife, Eugenia Garsin. His father was a money-changer, but when his business failed, the family lived in poverty. Amedeo’s birth saved the family from ruin, as according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child. The bailiffs entered the family’s home just as Eugenia went into labour. The family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her. Modigliani had a close relationship with his mother, who taught him at home until he was ten.
In 1906 Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. In fact, his arrival at the centre of artistic experimentation coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: Gino Severini and Juan Gris. He settled in Le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune for penniless artists in Montmartre, renting himself a studio in Rue Caulaincourt.
In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbor checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani was dying of the then-incurable disease tubercular meningitis.
Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
Self portrait, 1919
Oil on canvas, 100 x 64.5 cm
Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade
San Paulo, Brazil ▼
Head of a young woman, 1908
Oil on canvas, 57 x 55 cm
Musée d’Art Moderne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France ▼
Female nude with hat, 1908
Oil on canvas
Private collection ▼
Study for the cellist, 1909
Oil on canvas, Private collection ▼
Standing nude, 1912
Oil on cardboard, 82.8 x 47.9 cm
The Nagoya City Art Museum
Nagoya, Japan ▼
Caryatid, 1913
Pencil and watercolor, 33.5 x 27.3 cm
Private collection ▼
Caryatid, 1914
Pencil, pastel and watercolor on paper, 53 x 43.8 cm
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
France ▼
Caryatid, 1914
Pencil and tempera on paper, 90 x 70 cm
Private collection ▼
The red bust, 1913
Oil on canvas, 81 x 46 cm
Private collection ▼
Portrait of Diego Rivera, 1914
Oil on cardboard, 100 x 79 cm
Museo de Arte, Sao Paolo, Brazil ▼
Portrait of Beatrice Hastings, 1915
Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada ▼
Antonia, 1915
Oil on canvas, 82 x 46 cm
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France ▼
Portrait of the spanish painter Celso Lagar, 1915
Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm
Private collection ▼
Portrait of Juan Gris, 1916
Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, USA ▼
Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1915
Oil on cardboard, 34.5 x 26.5 cm
Private collection ▼
Portrait of the painter Moïse Kisling (1891-1953), 1915
Oil on canvas, 37 x 28 cm
Pinacoteca di Breta, Milan, Italy ▼
Portrait of Chaim Soutine, 1915
Oil on panel, 36 x 27.5 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany ▼
Beatris Hastings, 1915
Oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm
Private collection ▼
Madam Pompadour (Portrait of Beatrice Hastings), 1915
Oil on canvas, 61 x 50.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA ▼
Bride and groom, 1916
Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.3 cm
The Museum of Modern Arts
New York, USA ▼
Portrait of the art dealer Paul Guillaume, 1916
Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 54 cm
Civico Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Milan, Italy ▼
Renée the blonde, 1916
Oil on canvas, 61 x 38 cm
Museo de Arte, Sao Paolo, Brazil ▼
Lalotte, 1916
Oil on canvas, 55 x 35.5 cm
Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris, France ▼
The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and his wife Berthe Lipchitz, 1916
Oil on canvas, 80.2 x 52.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, USA ▼
Seated nude, 1916
Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 59.8 cm
Courtauld Institute Galleries
London, UK ▼
Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1916
Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm
The Art Museum Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA ▼
Portrait of a girl (Victoria), 1917
Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm
Tate Gallery, London, UK ▼
Madame Zborowska on a sofa, 1917
Oil on canvas, 130 x 81 cm
The Museum of Modern Arts
New York, USA ▼
Reclining nude with blue cushion, 1917
Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm
Collection of Mr. Nathan Cummings, NY, USA ▼
Portrait of a girl, 1918
Oil on canvas, 46 x 29 cm
Private collection ▼
Nude looking over her right shoulder, 1917
Oil on canvas, 89 x 146 cm, Private collection ▼
Portrait of Elena Pavlowski, 1917
Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.9 cm
The Phillips Collection
Washington DC, USA ▼
Portrait of Chaim Soutine seated at a table, 1917
Oil on canvas, 91.7 x 59.7 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Portrait of Leon Bakst, 1917
Oil on canvas, 55.3 x 33 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Seated nude, 1918
Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm
Private collection ▼
Woman with read hair, 1917
Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 60.7 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Nu couche de dos, 1917
Oil on canvas, Barnes Foundation
Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA ▼
Marcelle, 1917
Oil on canvas
Private collection ▼
Seated nude with necklace, 1917
Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm
Private collection ▼
Seated nude, 1917
Oil on canvas, 73 x 116 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Antwerp, Belgium ▼
Seated nude on divan, 1917
Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm
Private collection ▼
Sleeping nude with arms open (Red nude), 1917
Oil on canvas, 60 x 92 cm
Gianni Mattioli Collection, Milan, Italy ▼
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Reclining nude with left arm resting on forehead, 1917
Oil on canvas, 65 x 100 cm, Private collection ▼
Nude with necklace, 1917
Oil on canvas, 73 x 116 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA ▼
Girl in a green blouse, 1917
Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 46 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Cafe singer, 1917
Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 60.3 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Portrait of woman in hat (Jeanne Hébuterne in large hat), 1917
Oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm
Private collection ▼
The Zouave, 1918
Oil on canvas, 63 x 48.3 cm
Private collection ▼
Man with pipe (The notary of Nice), 1918
Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm
Private collection ▼
Portrait of Blaise Cendrars, 1918
Oil on cardboard, 61 x 50 cm
Private collection ▼
Girl with braids, 1918
Oil on canvas, 60 x 45.4 cm
The Nagoya City Art Museum
Nagoya, Japan ▼
Re haired young woman in chemise, 1918
Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm
Private collection ▼
Standing nude – Elvira, 1918
Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm
Kunstmuseum, Berne
Switzerland ▼
A blond woman. (Portrait of Germaine Survage), 1918
Oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Nancy, France ▼
The young apprentice, 1918
Oil on canvas 100 x 65 cm
Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA ▼
La belle Epicière, 1918
Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm
Private collection ▼
Little girl in blue, 1918
Oil on canvas, 116 x 73 cm
Private collection ▼
Girl in a white chemise, 1918
Oil on canvas, 73 x 50 cm
Private collection ▼
Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne (1898 -1920), common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm
Norton Simon Art Foundation
Pasadena, USA ▼
Jeanne Hébuterne in a yellow sweater, 1919
Oil on canvas, 100 x 64.7 cm
Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA ▼
Portrait of Lunia Czechovska, 1919
Oil on canvas, 46 x 33 cm
Private collection ▼
Jeaune fille au corsage a pois, 1919
Oil on canvas, Barnes Foundation
Lincoln University, Merion, USA ▼
Landscape, 1919
Oil on canvas, 61 x 46.5 cm
Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany ▼
Gypsy woman with child, 1918
Oil on canvas, 115.9 x 73 cm
The National Gallery of Art
Washington DC, USA ▼
Seated woman with child, 1919
Oil on canvas, 130 x 81 cm
Musée d’Art Moderne
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France ▼
