Word: modigliani
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...AMEDEO MODIGLIANI-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th St. Twenty-two paintings and two pieces of sculpture. Among the oval-faced, almond-eyed portraits are two of British Poetess Beatrice Hastings. One painting, Le Garçon Rouge, has never been shown in New York before. Through...
...Modigliani's Legacy. The macchiaioli were too far from the mainstream of modern art to be noticed at once. But their pupils made good. One who studied under Fattori was an Italian Jew from Leghorn named Amedeo Modigliani. Although he is best recalled for his expressionistic nudes, there was a time when Modigliani painted fleeting visions of the unpopulated flowery banks of Tuscany with a matchless skill that paid homage to his teacher. Thus Tuscan impressionism, so eagerly seeking to become a part of European art, fed Paris its best pupils, and Italian impressionism became, until now, a forgotten...
...single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically indebted to other painters. Ramapo Hills owes flagrant credit to Franz Marc, Le Pont Neuf to Giorgio de Chirico, Kiki to Modigliani, others to Braque. Léger, Picasso and Magritte. Yet they have much beyond mockery that is their own: enough original sensitivity and so abundant a measure of spontaneity that it almost begins not to matter that the method is imprecise or the execution slapdash. There is gimmickry...
...Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...
Arkadin, masterful character both in conception and portrayal, dominates the film, but he cannot carry the work alone. Robert Arden, an unappealing van Stratten, is not a convincing hero. Paola Meri's performance as Raina is even worse. She has one beautiful facial expression, much like a Modigliani portrait, but she refuses to change...