Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) is an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who works mainly in France.

He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces, necks, and figures that are not received well during his lifetime but later find acceptance.

Modigliani spends his youth in Italy, where he studies the art of antiquity and the Renaissance.

In 1906 he moves to Paris, where he comes into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși.

By 1912 Modigliani is exhibiting highly stylized sculptures with Cubists of the Section d'Or group at the Salon d'Automne.

Modigliani's œuvre includes paintings and drawings.

From 1909 to 1914 he devotes himself mainly to sculpture.

His main subject is portraits and full figures, both in the images and in the sculptures.

Modigliani has little success while alive, but after his death achieves great popularity.

He diesof tubercular meningitis, at the age of thirty-five, in Paris.

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