Amedeo Modigliani - His Nudes

His Live And Works

1884 - July 12, Amedeo Clemente Modigliani born as 4th and last child of Flaminio and Eugenia Modigliani in Livorno, Italy. Amedeo is raised in a literary and philosiphic interested environment.

1898 - Modigliani suffers tyfus and gets the fever vision to become an artist. He starts his study at the art academy of Livorno with de painter Guglielmo Micheli.

1902 - Modigliani starts the study of Renaissance Art at the Scuola libera di Nudo (free modeldrawing school) at Florence.

1903 - M follows his friend Oscar Gighlia to Venice and lives here till he leaves for Paris. He is studying model drawing at the Instituto di Belle Arte di Venezia. On the Biennales of 1903 and 1904 he learns to know the works of the French Impressionists, Rodin and the Symbolists.

1906 - M leaves for Paris. There he takes a simple atelier in Montmartre and studies model drawing at the Academie Colarossi. He meets Maurice Utrillo, a friend for his life.

1907 - The young physician Dr. Paul Alexandre becomes M's first Maecenas, buying drawings and paintings from him, getting portrait orders for him.

1908 - M exhibits six paintings in the Salon des Independants (a.o The Juwess).

1909 - M creates The Amazon, his first paid portrait assignment. Via Alexandre he meets the Rumanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi. During the summer M stays in Italy with family. Possibly had starts this year working in stone, neglecting the painting.

1910 - M exhibits at the Salon des Independants. He meets later friend Max Jacob and has a affair with the Russian poetress Anna Achmatova.

1911 - M presents his archaic looking stone sculptures ("pillars of tenderness") in the atelier of the Portuguese artist Souza Cardoso.

1912 - M meets the sculptors Jacques Lipchitz and Jacob Epstein. He exhibits his sculptures on the Autumn Salon and the English painter Augustus John buys one of them.

1913 - M stays in Livorno, Italy, during April and May, and works in marble.

1914 - Via Max Jacob M meets the artdealer Paul Guillaume, who works for him the coming years. In May and June M takes part in the exhibition Twentieth Century Art in the Whitechapel Gallery. In June he meets the excentric English woman writer Beatrice Hastings and during two years they have a very stormy relation. In these 2 years she is his favorite portrait model. Due to his bad health M is not being enlisted at the beginning of WWI. But Paul Alexandre is being called up for military service and so the contact between the two men is broken. Alexandre owns a collections of about 400 pages with M's drawings, made public not until 1990. M starts painting again.

1915 - M makes a portrain of Picasso.

1916 - M makes numerous portrait of famous people.

1917 - M creates the famous series of about 30 nude paintings. In April M meets the 19-year old Jeanne Hebuterne, student at the Academy Colarossi. They will live together. On December 3, M's first solo-exhibition is being opened in the Galerie Berthe Weill. Already during the vernissage the exhibition is prohibited and closed because of the exhibited nude paintings.

1918 - M and Jeanne Hebuterne fly from Paris, threatened by the advancing German armies, and settle on the coast of Southern France. In Nice and environs M paints numerous portraits, sending them to Paris to be sold. On November 29 Jeanne gives birth to a daughter, M accepts paternity. Paul Guillaume organises an exhibition in the Faubourg Saint Honore, where M participates.

1919 - Several works of M are being presented on English expositions, e.g. Modern French Painting in Heale, the Hill Gallery in London. English collectors start buying M's work. M participates in the Autumn Salon in Paris. At the end of the year M suffers from tuberculosis and has to cancel a planned trip to Italy.

1920 - M dies on January 24 in the Charite in Paris. Jeanne Hebuterne commits suicide the next day. Both rest in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, Paris.

	Amedeo Modigliani Around1909
	Nude with hatOilpaint on linen, 81 x 54 cm Ceroni 7a Richard Nathanson, London
	The suffering nude - Nudo dolenteOilpaint on linen, 81 x 54 cm Ceroni 8 Richard Nathanson, London
	Aside bending nudeCrayon on paper, 43 x 26 cm Private collection
	Nude on couch Around1909 Charcoal on paper, 43 x 26 cm Private collection
	Sitting nudeCrayon on paper, 42.5 x 26.4 cm Isabella del Frate Rayburn, New York
	Nude, kneeling to the leftGreased chalk on paper, 43 x 26.5 cm Private collection
	BeatriceCharcoal on paper, 55 x 38 cm Private collection
	Sitting nudeOilpaint on linen, 92.4 x 59.8 cm Ceroni 127 Courtauld Institute Galleries, Samuel Courtauld Collection, London
	Standing nudePencil on paper Private collection
	Sleeping nudePencil on paper Private collection
	NudePencil on paper, 29.3 x 45.4 cm Private collection
	Sitting nude with necklaceOilpaint on linen, 92 x 60 cm Ceroni 187 Private collection
	Sitting nudeOilpaint on linen, 73 x 116 cm Ceroni 188 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
	Nude, sitting on a couchOilpaint on linen, 100 x 65 cm Ceroni 192 Private collection
	Nude with necklace (left part)Oilpaint on linen, 64.4 x 99.4 cm Ceroni 185 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin (OH), donation by Joseph and Enid Bissett
	Sleeping nude with arms opened (The red nude)Oilpaint on linen, 60 x 92 cm Ceroni 198 Collection Gianni Mattioli, Milano
	Nude on blue cushionOilpaint on linen, 65.4 x 100.9 cm Ceroni 146 Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington (DC)
	Lying nude with the left arm over the foreheadOilpaint on linen, 65 x 100 cm Ceroni 194 Collection Richard S. Zeiler, New York
	Nude with necklaceOilpaint on linen, 73 x 116 cm Ceroni 186 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
	Lying nude (detail)Oilpaint on linen, 60 x 92 cm Ceroni 196 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (Germany)
	Jeanne HebuterneDrawing Chinese ink on paper, 59.5 x 42 cm Private collection
	Big nude (detail)Oilpaint on linen, 72.4 x 116.5 cm Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Lying nude with loose hairOilpaint on linen, 100 x 65 cm Municipal collection, Osaka
	Big nudeOilpaint on linen, 72 x 117 cm Private collection By A.Ceroni classified as Modigliani
	Young woman with read hair in chemiseOilpaint on linen, 100 x 65 cm Ceroni 265 Private collection
	Standing nude - ElviraOilpaint on linen, 92 x 60 cm Ceroni 272 Kunstmuseum, Bern, donation of Walter and Gertrud Hadorn
	Lying nude with her head resting on her right armOilpaint on linen, 73 x 116 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
	Nudo allungato Further details not known by me
	Nudo sdraiato Further details not known by me

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