Modigliani’s dealer and fervent champion during these years, Léopold Zborowski, quickly made plans to leave Paris with his wife Hanka, and persuaded the artist and his young lover Jeanne Hébuterne to accompany them. People fled Paris in their droves, escaping to the countryside, with many flocking to the Côte d’Azur. Their lack of precision made the ensuing bombardment a terrifying and unpredictable experience, with earth-shaking explosions hitting the city in regular intervals, bringing death and destruction at random. The most powerful mobile artillery used in the war, the guns were capable of shelling Paris and its environs from a distance of over sixty miles. That spring, the German army had launched a sustained offensive on the French capital, positioning three enormous railway-mounted guns, collectively known as “Big Bertha” within striking distance of the city. In March 1918, Amedeo Modigliani left Paris for the south of France, driven from the city by the rapidly shifting circumstances of the First World War. Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Amedeo Modigliani, March-June 1999, p.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Paintings and Sculptures, October-November 1998 (pl. Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Les peintres de Zborowski: Modigliani, Utrillo, Soutine et leurs amis, June-October 1994, p. Tokyo, Tobu Museum Kyoto, Daimaru Osaka, Daimaru and Ibaraki, Museum of Modern Art, Amedeo Modigliani au Japon, November 1992-March 1993, p. 45.ĭüsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and Kunsthaus Zürich, Amedeo Modigliani: Malerei, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, January-July 1991, p.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Amedeo Modigliani, October-November 1971, no. New York, Art and Antiques Dealers League of America, Inc., Artistic Beauty of the Centuries, May 1966, p. About the seriesBorn back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.Cincinnati Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, Amedeo Modigliani, April-May 1959, no. With key works from his highly individualistic repertoire, this book introduces Modigliani's brief but revered career at the heart of Paris's early modernist hotbed. Modigliani's unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy.Īlthough most renowned for his nude females, he applied similar stylistic techniques to portraits of male artistic contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Chaim Soutine. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history.
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