Nude Seated
Nude
Jeanne Hebuterne
Cypress Trees and Houses
Landscape at Cagnes
Reclining Nude
Nude with Blue Cushion
Nude 1
Some diverse paintings from Italian expressionist painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani doesn't get a mention in the National Gallery's recently opened Rebels and Martyrs Show - but, in terms of proving a point, he could have had a whole room to himself. For the Italian-born artist was the paradigm of the romantic bohemian, the outsider painter who pursued his own vision amid a swirl of drugs, alcohol and dissolution in the Paris of the early 20th century.
He died in penury and squalor in January 1920 at the age of 35, discovered by a neighbour in the final throes of tubercular meningitis, his bed strewn with bottles of alcohol and cans of sardines, his mistress Jeanne Hébuterne nursing him. She hadn't thought to call a doctor, but her devotion to her lover was so great that, two days after his death, she threw herself backwards from a fifth-floor window. She was nine months pregnant with their second child.
Amedeo Modigliani 1884 - 1920
