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Aug 23, 2024 · Modigliani, Amedeo: Head of a Woman Head of a Woman, limestone sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani, 1910–11; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (more) In 1909 Modigliani met the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi , on whose advice he seriously studied African sculpture.
Born in 1884 to an aristocratic family in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani settled in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris in 1906 and began making paintings influenced by both the mood of Picasso's Blue period and the pictorial structure of late Cézanne.
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian artist known for his unique elongated style of portraiture. View Amedeo Modigliani’s 1,692 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, sculpture, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.
Amedeo Modigliani was born in Tuscany, and he had a strong Jewish heritage as influenced by his family. He was raised in Livorno, a small yet thriving city in Italy. During his childhood years, Modigliani lived in the city of Livorno that was known to be the centre of commerce famous for shipwrighting and seafaring.
Fiammetta Luino. "Modigliani and the Zborowski Nudes." Amedeo Modigliani: "Nu Couché". Ed. Robert Brown. New York, 2015, p. 64, ill. p. 86 (color), calls it "Nu couché, les mains dernière la tête" in the text and "Nu couché, les mains derrière la tête" in the caption. Kathryn Calley Galitz. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Masterpiece ...
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) 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 characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not ...
"Amedeo Modigliani," October 14–November 13, 1971, no. 26 (as "Portrait de jeune fille," 1917). Leningrad. State Hermitage Museum. "100 Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–July 27, 1975, no. 77.
