Amedeo Modigliani

Fülszöveg

MODIGLIANI
TEXT BY JACQUES LIPCHITZ
Modigliani was one of the most fascinating and romantic figures of modern art Italian by birth^ and a member of a very proper family which claimed Spinoza in its ancestry, he kicked over the traces at an early age to go to Paris. In the Bohemian I.atin Quarter he soon became a legendary figure, as well knowu for his all-night carousing and the romantic cut. of his clothes as he was for the delicacy and troubled beauty of his painiings. Strikingly handsome, irresistible to women of every walk of life, he was celebrated as*' "the prince of Bohemians." But only after his life had been tragically and prematurely snuffed out by tuberculosis, aggravated by reckless dissipations, was his genius appreciated beyond a small circle of artists and writers. Now^ his graceful and beautiful paintings are priceless art treasures which are displayed in the great museums of the world.
TITLES NOW READY Manet • Rouault • Gauguin
Modigliani • El Greco •... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MODIGLIANI
TEXT BY JACQUES LIPCHITZ
Modigliani was one of the most fascinating and romantic figures of modern art Italian by birth^ and a member of a very proper family which claimed Spinoza in its ancestry, he kicked over the traces at an early age to go to Paris. In the Bohemian I.atin Quarter he soon became a legendary figure, as well knowu for his all-night carousing and the romantic cut. of his clothes as he was for the delicacy and troubled beauty of his painiings. Strikingly handsome, irresistible to women of every walk of life, he was celebrated as*' "the prince of Bohemians." But only after his life had been tragically and prematurely snuffed out by tuberculosis, aggravated by reckless dissipations, was his genius appreciated beyond a small circle of artists and writers. Now^ his graceful and beautiful paintings are priceless art treasures which are displayed in the great museums of the world.
TITLES NOW READY Manet • Rouault • Gauguin
Modigliani • El Greco • Toulouse-Lautrec
Botticelli • French Impressionists • Degas
Dufy • Cézanne • Renoir • Rembrandt
Matisse • Utrillo • Van Gogh
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The text for this volume is a perceptive and colorful reminiscence of Amedeo Modigliani by his close friend, the world-famous sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. The thirty pages of full color plates include portraits of notable artists and poets, swan-necked women, delicately drawn nudes, and wistful, dreamy-eyed children. The black-and-white illustrations present a rich selection of Modigliani's drawings and sculpture, some never before reproduced.
The Pocket Library of Great Art will ultimately constitute the most remarkable collection of art-in-reproduction ever published. Each new volume, as it presents the life-enriching values which art can give, will bring you closer to that comprehensive knowledge of the great masters which all cultured people would like to have.
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