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Modi's MomentModigliani and his Time
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Amedeo Modigliani: tortured, ailing and brilliant One of the best remembered artistic figures of the 20th Century Amedeo Modigilani's memory is honored with a retrospective looking at his own works and those of the artists that influenced him such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Constantin Brancusi. |
His friends like Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine, Moïse Kisling, Ossip Zadkine, Tsuguharu Foujita and Jules Pascin are also featured.
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Amedeo marched to the beat of his own drummer. While the Italian native was open to the ideas found in the Parisian avant-garde movements of the early 21st Century he stood alone never quite becoming part of any of them. |
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Hailing from Livorno, a port city found on Tuscany's Tyrrhenian Sea Amedeo Modigliani was born to a poor family on July 12, 1884. He suffered from ill health throughout his short life contracting pleurisy and later tuberculois. At the age of twenty-two he moved to Paris settling in the area known as Montmartre. It was here where he first encountered Fauvre and he was at the cutting edge of the development of Cubism.
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He was able to exhibit some works at the Salons d’Automne and later with the Indépendents. He had one solo exhibition during his lifetime at the Galerie Berthe Weill in 1917 just a few short years before his death in the latter part of January 1920. |
Title: Landscape of Cagnes, c. 1923-1924
Artist: Chaim Soutine (Russian born French 1893-1943)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm
Private Collection: Mr. Lev Elkin and Mrs. Maria Ouzdin Collection
Image Courtesy: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Within this retrospective exhibition some of the obvious and not-so obvious influences on Modigliani are explored such as African and archaic Greek sculpture, Cubism and Fauvism, Sienese Trecento painting and the work of El Greco.
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Modi's creations of portraits, nudes, sculptures, drawings and landscapes, will be displayed in juxtaposition to carefully selected works by Gauguin, Cézanne, Picasso, Brancusi and André Derain. |
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Approximately one hundred and thirty works will be on display. |
Modigliani and his Time
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza:
February 5 – May 18, 2008