Modigliani

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MODIGLIANI
by Gaston Diehl
The personal drama that ravaged Modigliani's life was so vivid that the myth attached to his name ended by obscuring his woric in the eyes of the public. Gaston Diehl, helping to further the tasi; undertaken by the artist's daughter of establishing the truth, reconstructs the stages of his formative period in Italy and, by examining various events which were unknown or ignored until now, makes it clear that Modigliani was accepted as a valuable addition to the city's artistic life almost immediately upon his arrival in Paris.
Modigliani's production thereafter was of exceptional importance — in sculpture as well as in painting — a fact that does not have to be belabored now. But it is still necessary to emphasize how his work evolved and to place his efforts within the context of that turbulent period which Diehl has already considered in his books on Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Pascin, and Van Dongen.
Modigliani's work takes on its true dimension, and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MODIGLIANI
by Gaston Diehl
The personal drama that ravaged Modigliani's life was so vivid that the myth attached to his name ended by obscuring his woric in the eyes of the public. Gaston Diehl, helping to further the tasi; undertaken by the artist's daughter of establishing the truth, reconstructs the stages of his formative period in Italy and, by examining various events which were unknown or ignored until now, makes it clear that Modigliani was accepted as a valuable addition to the city's artistic life almost immediately upon his arrival in Paris.
Modigliani's production thereafter was of exceptional importance — in sculpture as well as in painting — a fact that does not have to be belabored now. But it is still necessary to emphasize how his work evolved and to place his efforts within the context of that turbulent period which Diehl has already considered in his books on Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Pascin, and Van Dongen.
Modigliani's work takes on its true dimension, and the author backs up his belief that Modigliani's ambition — goals he had laid out for himself as early as adolescence under the double influence of family tradition and his exposure to the past, particularly Etruscan art — was fully justified.
The excellent and numerous illustrations complement the text, many never published before, allow the reader to understand and answer the questions raised by the life and work of this major artist.
45 paintings and 7 sculptures in color 23 drawings in black and white and in color
Front cover illustration:
Sleeping Nude (Detail), about 1918 Oil, 24" x 35"
Collection of Gianni Mattioli, Milan
Back cover illustration:
Head, about 1917 Height 27" Stone
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of Mrs. Maurice J. Speiser Vissza