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...Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When...
When the War broke out in 1914 Modigliani coughed too much to be drafted. He stayed all night in the cafes, sketching for drinks, arguing passionately and with great wit. In one of the cafes he met the Polish poet Zborowski who saw that he was dying. Zborowski tried to sell some of Modigliani's canvases. But no one wanted them, so he sold a trunk full of his own clothes and took the painter to Provence for his health. He improved slightly but once back in Paris he drank again, became so undermined that when an unusual cold...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...
...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...