Modigliani managed to portray the most lively girl.
As a result, Modigliani manages to create an unusual contrast.
Modigliani and Picasso both scored results above $100 million threshold.
Modigliani worked in Micheli's Art School from 1898 to 1900.
For 5 years, Modigliani has written a huge number of portraits.
Modigliani's previous auction record was 43.2m euros(£35.8m),
set earlier this year in Paris.
Modigliani's previous auction record was 43.2m euros(£35.8m),
set earlier in 2010 in Paris.
In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde.
In 1909, Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle.
For the year spent in the south of France, Modigliani created several children's images.
On December 3, 1917, Modigliani's first one-man exhibition opened at the Berthe
Weill Gallery in Paris.
Although he continued to paint, Modigliani's health deteriorated rapidly,
and his alcohol-induced blackouts became more frequent.
Modigliani was always interested in nudity,
but he seriously turned to this topic only in 1916.
In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet
and art dealer Léopold Zborowski and his wife Anna.
In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet
and art dealer Leopold Zborovski and his wife Anna.
Modigliani had a close relationship with his mother,
who taught him at home until he was 10.
Modigliani had a relationship with his mother, who taught him at home until he was 10.
While with Micheli, Modigliani studied not only landscape, but also portraiture, still life, and the nude.
Many artists such as Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso worked there.
Modigliani's behavior stood out even in these Bohemian surroundings:
he carried on frequent affairs, drank heavily, and used absinthe and hashish.
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani(Italian pronunciation:;
12 July 1884- 24 January 1920) was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France.
A doctor was summoned, but little could be done because Modigliani was in the final stage of his disease, tubercular meningitis.
In 1901, whilst in Rome, Modigliani admired the work of Domenico Morelli,
a painter of melodramatic Biblical studies and scenes from great literature.
Even when compelled to
paint landscapes(three are known to exist), Modigliani chose a proto-Cubist palette more akin to Cézanne than to the Macchiaioli.
An Italian by birth, Modigliani lived most of his life in France
and is considered one of the artists of the so-called Paris school.
The chief of the Paris police was scandalized by Modigliani's nudes and forced him to close the exhibition within a few hours after its opening.
Modigliani is known to have drawn and painted from a very early age,
and thought himself"already a painter", his mother wrote,[6] even before beginning formal studies.
In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days,
a neighbour checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne.
Despite her misgivings that launching him on a course of studying art would impinge upon his other studies,
his mother indulged the young Modigliani's passion for the subject.
Jeanne Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetiere de Bagneux, near Paris
and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her to be moved to rest beside Modigliani.