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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)
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    Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)

    By Peter Russell and Amedeo Modigliani

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    Though he died young in relative obscurity, the works of Amedeo Modigliani are now regarded as some of the most important canvases of the twentieth century. Modigliani’s innovative portraits and nudes are characterised by their asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures and monumental use of line. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Modigliani’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)


    * The complete paintings of Amedeo Modigliani — over 350 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order
    * Includes reproductions of rare works
    * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information
    * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Modigliani’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books
    * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
    * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings
    * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view
    * Includes a selection of Modigliani's drawings and sculptures - explore the artist’s varied works
    * Scholarly ordering of plates into chronological order


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books


    CONTENTS:


    The Highlights
    PORTRAIT OF PEDRO
    THE HORSEWOMAN
    HEAD, 1911
    CARYATID
    PIERROT
    BEATRICE HASTINGS
    CESLO LAGAR
    JUAN GRIS
    JEAN COCTEAU
    CHAIM SOUTINE
    SEATED NUDE, 1916
    NUDE SITTING ON A DIVAN
    MADAME ZBOROWSKA
    RECLINING NUDE WITH BLUE CUSHION
    LEOPOLD ZBOROWSKI
    SEATED BOY WITH CAP
    JEANNE HÉBUTERNE, WITH A DOOR IN THE BACKGROUND


    The Paintings
    THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS
    ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS


    Other Artworks
    LIST OF DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES


    Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelphi Classics
    Release dateJun 29, 2016
    ISBN9781786564948
    Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated)

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      Delphi Complete Paintings of Amedeo Modigliani (Illustrated) - Peter Russell

      Amedeo Modigliani

      (1884-1920)

      Contents

      The Highlights

      PORTRAIT OF PEDRO

      THE HORSEWOMAN

      HEAD, 1911

      CARYATID

      PIERROT

      BEATRICE HASTINGS

      CESLO LAGAR

      JUAN GRIS

      JEAN COCTEAU

      CHAIM SOUTINE

      SEATED NUDE, 1916

      NUDE SITTING ON A DIVAN

      MADAME ZBOROWSKA

      RECLINING NUDE WITH BLUE CUSHION

      LEOPOLD ZBOROWSKI

      SEATED BOY WITH CAP

      JEANNE HÉBUTERNE, WITH A DOOR IN THE BACKGROUND

      The Paintings

      THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS

      ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS

      Other Artworks

      LIST OF DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES

      The Delphi Classics Catalogue

      © Delphi Classics 2016

      Version 1

      Masters of Art Series

      Amedeo Modigliani

      By Delphi Classics, 2016

      COPYRIGHT

      Masters of Art - Amedeo Modigliani

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2016.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 494 8

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

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      The Highlights

      Livorno (traditionally known in English as Leghorn), a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy — Modigliani was born in Livorno in 1884.

      Modigliani’s birthplace

      Modigliani, 1918

      THE HIGHLIGHTS

      In this section, a sample of Modigliani’s most famous works is provided, with concise introductions, special ‘detail’ reproductions and additional biographical images.

      PORTRAIT OF PEDRO

      Amedeo Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. His mother, Eugénie Garsin, who was born and raised in Marseille, was descended from an intellectual family of Sephardic ancestry that for generations had lived along the Mediterranean coastline. Modigliani’s father, Flaminio, was a member of a family of successful businessmen and entrepreneurs. Modigliani was the fourth child, whose birth coincided with the disastrous financial collapse of his father’s business interests.

      A sickly child, Modigliani was taken seriously ill when he was sixteen-years old, contracting the tuberculosis which would later claim his life. After Modigliani recovered from the second bout of pleurisy, his mother took him on a tour of southern Italy: Naples, Capri, Rome and Amalfi, then north to Florence and Venice. In many ways, she would become instrumental in his ability to pursue art as a vocation. Modigliani is known to have drawn and painted from a very early age, and thought himself already a painter, his mother wrote, even before beginning formal studies. Despite her misgivings that a course of studying art would intrude upon his other studies, his mother indulged his passion for the subject.

      In time, Modigliani’s mother agreed to enrol him with the best painting master in Livorno, Guglielmo Micheli. Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere steeped in a study of the styles and themes of nineteenth century Italian art. In his earliest Parisian work, traces of this influence, and that of his studies of Renaissance art, can be clearly noted. Modigliani showed great promise while with Micheli, ceasing his studies only when he was forced to by the onset of tuberculosis.

      In 1901, whilst in Rome, Modigliani was attracted to the work of Domenico Morelli, a painter of dramatic religious and literary scenes. Morelli had served as an inspiration for a group of iconoclasts that were known by the title the Macchiaioli (from macchia— dash of colour), and Modigliani had already been exposed to the influences of the Macchiaioli. These artists reacted against the bourgeois stylings of the academic genre painters.

      Modigliani’s connection with the movement was through Guglielmo Micheli, his first art teacher. Micheli was not only a Macchiaiolo himself, but had been a pupil of the famous Giovanni Fattori, a founder of the movement. Micheli’s work, however, was so fashionable and the genre so commonplace that the young Modigliani reacted against it, preferring to ignore the obsession with landscape that, as with French Impressionism, characterised the movement. While with Micheli, Modigliani studied not only landscape, but also portraiture, still life and the nude. He found favour with his teacher, who referred to him as Superman, a pet name reflecting the fact that Modigliani was not only quite adept at his art, but also that he regularly quoted from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

      In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. He settled in Le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune for penniless artists in Montmartre, renting himself a studio in Rue Caulaincourt. Even though this artists’ quarter of Montmartre was characterised by generalised poverty, Modigliani appeared — initially, at least — very much the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions. He soon made efforts to assume the guise of the bohemian artist, but even in his brown corduroys, scarlet scarf and large black hat, he continued to appear as if he were slumming it, having fallen upon harder times.

      The early Portrait of Pedro, completed in 1909, is believed to feature a Spanish immigrant printer or typographer, who was one of the artist’s early acquaintances in Paris. At this date, Modigliani still considered himself a sculptor, rather than a painter, though early indications can be seen that he already had a firm grasp of typical painting conventions, unrestricted by sculpting mannerisms. Like many of the artist’s later, more famous portraits, he employs even lighting, with no shadow, and we can also see subtle distortions of facial features, which would later dominate his work. The range

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