Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought-after. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. By 1912, Modigliani was exhibiting highly stylized sculptures with Cubists of the Section d'Or group at the Salon d'Automne.
Modigliani c. 1918
Modigliani's birthplace in Livorno
Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1915, private collection
His home in Venice
The School of Paris refers to the French and émigré artists who worked in Paris in the first half of the 20th century.
André Warnod, Les Berceaux de la jeune peinture (1925). Cover illustration by Amedeo Modigliani
Raoul Dufy, Regatta at Cowes, 1934, Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art
Marc Chagall, The Fiddler, 1912–13
Sonia Delaunay, Rythme, 1938