Amedeo Modigliani facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani
Born	Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884-07-12)12 July 1884 Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Died	24 January 1920(1920-01-24) (aged 35) Paris, France
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence
Known for	Painting, sculpture
Notable work	Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress Madame Pompadour Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits in a modern style characterized by long faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime but later found acceptance.

Modigliani is known to have drawn and painted from a very early age and spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance.

Modigliani worked in Micheli's Art School from 1898 to 1900. Among his colleagues in that studio would have been Llewelyn Lloyd, Giulio Cesare Vinzio, Manlio Martinelli, Gino Romiti, Renato Natali, and Oscar Ghiglia.

Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere full of the study of the styles and themes of 19th-century Italian art. In his earliest Parisian work, traces of this influence, and that of his studies of Renaissance art, can still be seen.

In 1906 he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. By 1912 Modigliani was exhibiting highly stylized sculptures with Cubists of the Section d'Or group at the Salon d'Automne.

During his early years in Paris, Modigliani worked at a furious pace. He was constantly sketching, making as many as a hundred drawings a day. However, many of his works were lost or destroyed or left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them.

Modigliani's work includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914 he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. His main subject was portraits and full figures, both in the images and in the sculptures.

At the outset of World War I, Modigliani tried to enlist in the army but was refused because of his poor health.

He died on January 24, 1920, at the Hôpital de la Charité of tubercular meningitis, at the age of 35, in Paris. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

He had little success while alive, but after his death achieved great popularity. Since his death, Modigliani's reputation has soared. Nine novels, a play, a documentary, and three feature films have been devoted to his life.

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  Modigliani's birthplace in Livorno

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  Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1915, private collection

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  His home in Venice.

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  Portrait of Chaïm Soutine, 1916

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  Portrait of Juan Gris, 1915

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  Le Bateau-Lavoir in 1910

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  Four sculptures by Modigliani exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne along with the Cubists

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  Female Head, 1911/1912, Tate

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  Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and André Salmon, 1916

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  Portrait of Léopold Zborowski, 1918

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  Jeanne Hébuterne

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  Jeanne Hébuterne with Hat and Necklace, 1917

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  Modigliani in 1919, near the end of his life

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  Grave of Modigliani and Hébuterne in Père Lachaise Cemetery

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  Alice, c. 1918, Danish National Gallery

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  Portrait of Maude Abrantes, 1907, Hecht Museum

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  Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915, Musée de l'Orangerie

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  Bride and Groom, 1915

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  Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916

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  Léon Indenbaum, 1916, Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum

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  Portrait of Beatrice Hastings, 1916

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  Portrait of Moise Kisling, 1915

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  Madame Kisling, 1917

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  Portrait of the Artist's Wife (Jeanne Hébuterne), 1918

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  Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater, 1918

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  Dedie Hayden, 1918, Centre Georges Pompidou

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  Self-portrait, 1919, oil on canvas, Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil

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  Gypsy Woman with Baby, 1919, National Gallery of Art

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  The Little Peasant, 1918, Tate Liverpool

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  Portrait of a Young Woman, 1918, New Orleans Museum of Art

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  Buste de femme, unknown, before 1919, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)

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  Beatrice Hastings, 1916–1919, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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  Woman with a Fan, 1919, stolen from Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

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  Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne, Seated, 1918, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

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  Portrait of Blaise Cendrars, 1917, Galleria Sabauda, Turin