Secret modigliani biography
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All about Amedeo Modigliani
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Complete Paintings
All the works with provenance & bibliography
the Man
A complete year by year Biography and documentary resource.
exhibitions
A recollection of lifetime and later exhibitions.
The dark side, experts & market
Myths, forgers, Trust & lots of money
the experts past and present
A list and collection of people who made a living from Modigliani's work, some good more bad, and even a few jail condemned folks.
Probably the more polemic area of my website, here you will find everything they want nobody to know...
the market trust & money
This is where the really dirty crowd plays in the mud.
A painter with no protection, surrounded by dirty dealers, galleries, art historians, "Droit Morale", etc..
A perfect storm.
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Summary of Amedeo Modigliani
A central participant in the École de Paris, Modigliani modernized two of the enduring themes of art history: the portrait and the nude. Characterized by a sense of melancholy, elongated proportions, and mask-like faces influenced by such sources as Constantin Brancusi and African art, Modigliani's portraits are both specific and highly stylized, each uniquely revealing its sitter's inner life, while at the same time unmistakably "Modiglianized," to use the words of one critic. Modigliani's nudes scandalized audiences with their depiction of features such as pubic hair and their frank, unadorned sexuality. The subject of three biographical movies, Modigliani's legacy is inextricably bound up with his tragic and bohemian life: his fragile health, which plagued him since childhood; his perpetual pennilessness; and - most famously - his over-the-top, self-destructive lifestyle, which included sexual debauchery and overuse of drugs and alcohol.
Accomplishments
- Modigliani upended the tradition of the nude. Modern in their candid sensuality, his works in this genre are noticeably devoid of the modesty and mythological subtext present in many earlier depictions of nude figures. Because of these qualities - along with the artist's notorious womanizin
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Modigliani: A Life
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