Word: modigliani
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modigliani, the gifted young Italian who died at the beginning of a promising career is represented by the "Portrait of a Young Woman." This picture embodies much of the elusive charm of a Quattrocento portrait. It is interesting to compare this work, executed in sombre colors, with the rather harsh Modigliani "Woman and Child" in the Fogg Museum where the artist is working in a very different vein...
Prominent among the painters whose work is being shown are Giorgio de Chirico, Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire, Moise Kisling, Marie Laurencin, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, and Maurice Vlaminck. "Golden Bird" by Constantin Brancusi occupies a conspicuous place among the sculpture being exhibited, included in which are also pieces by Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol...
...results of the referendum would indicate that he was right. A great change has taken place. It is already reported that Socialists such as Turati, Treves and Modigliani may sink their dogmatic scruples and enter the Cabinet to keep an eye on the working out of the agreement; and the fact that this change was brought about by violence sets an ominous precedent for the discontented of the future. Nevertheless, Italy has escaped practically unharmed from a situation which threatened a great deal of trouble, and the new industrial experiment is to be tried, apparently, with good faith...