MODIGLIANI Amedeo Clemente

ITALY ( 1884 - 1920 )

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani), born July 12, 1884 in Livorno (Kingdom of Italy) and died January 24, 1920 in Paris, was an Italian painter and sculptor attached to the School of Paris.

In fragile health, Amedeo Modigliani grew up in a bourgeois but penniless Jewish family which, on the maternal side in any case, supported his early vocation as an artist. His formative years took him from Tuscany to Venice via the Mezzogiorno, before settling in 1906 in Paris, then European capital of the artistic avant-garde. Between Montmartre and Montparnasse, very close to Maurice Utrillo, Max Jacob, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Jacques Lipchitz, Moïse Kisling or Chaïm Soutine, Modi becomes one of the figures of bohemianism.

Moving on to sculpture around 1909 — his ideal — he abandoned it around 1914, in particular because of his lung problems: he returned exclusively to painting, produced a lot, sold little, and died at the age of 35 from tuberculosis contracted in his family. youth.