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Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; Italian:[ameˈdɛːomodiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) 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.

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Born in Livorno, Italy in , Modigliani dreamed of becoming a sculptor from a young age when he first encountered the grand marbles of Michelangelo.

Modigliani list of works

Modigliani was shown in a solo exhibition in room 31 of the central pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale in [40] Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, ed.

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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's oeuvre includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914, he devoted himself