"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 June 2016

Transformed.

Modigliani, Caryatid, 1914


It wasn’t uncommon for the artists who laid the foundations of modern art in early 20th-century Paris to recite poetry, womanise, drink and take drugs. But Amedeo Modigliani’s handsome face, tragic love story and early death transformed the Jewish painter from Livorno into legend. Modigliani lived a short, intense life, as he had wished to.

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