His life was the stuff of Hollywood. His art is the stuff of dreams. Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian painter and sculptor, created groundbreaking works that rivaled or even surpassed those of Pablo ...
Italian Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani was 35 years old when he died in 1920 due to complications of tuberculosis, drug abuse, chronic alcoholism, and neglect. Actor Andy Garcia is 50, and his movie ...
Amedeo Modigliani — his first name means “beloved of God” — became known soon after his death as le maudit — the cursed one. An Italian painter who lived in Paris just before and after World War I, ...
Modigliani was also friendly with Picasso, though not part of his inner circle. Picasso, who affected a workingman’s look with his patched clothes and fisherman’s sweaters, seems to have admired ...
The movie, directed by Johnny Depp, adapted from a play by Dennis McIntyre, follows the artist fleeing the police, in Paris. By Glenn Kenny A show at the Grey Art Museum re-establishes Berthe Weill as ...
A major Amedeo Modigliani exhibition at the Doge’s Palace in Genoa has closed three days early after authorities confirmed that 21 of the 30 paintings on view were most likely fakes. The museum made ...