PARIS (Reuters) - A sculpture by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani has fetched 43.2 million euros (35.7 million pound) at a Paris sale, an auction record for the artist and the highest price paid for a ...
Modigliani was convinced Rodin and his followers had corrupted sculpture with an overreliance on clay—“too much mud,” he called it. Real sculptors, he declared, carved directly from stone. To do so ...
Even in a crowded gallery room, it’s easy to spot the work of Amedeo Modigliani — the mysteriously elongated lines; the hauntingly stylized faces that characterize so many of his paintings and ...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008. Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Avenue at 8th Street, S.W Washington District of Columbia ...
Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated ...
Known for his distinctive and highly stylized portraits and nudes, Amedeo Modigliani is one of the most renowned European painters of the 20 th century. But like many artists throughout history, his ...
Late in 1919, in a squalid Paris studio strewn with wine bottles, Amedeo Modigliani painted a wistful portrait of his 21-year-old lover, Jeanne Hébuterne. Afew months later, on January 24, 1920, the ...