Modigliani: A Life
by Jeffrey Meyers
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 071563657X
- ISBN 13
- 9780715636572
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Synopsis
In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris, much like a figure out of La Boheme. His life had been as dramatic as his death. An Italian Jew from a bourgeois family, "Modi" had a weakness for drink, hashish, and the many women-including the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova-who were drawn to his good looks. His friends included Picasso, Utrillo, Soutine, and other important artists of his day, yet his own work stood apart, generating little interest while he lived. Today's art world, however, acknowledges him as a master whose limited oeuvre-sculptures, portraits, and some of the most appealing nudes in the whole of modern art-cannot satisfy collectors' demand. With a lively but judicious hand, biographer Jeffrey Meyers sketches Modigliani and the art he produced, illuminating not only this little-known figure but also the painters, writers, lovers, and others who inhabited early twentieth-century Paris with him.
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- Bookseller
- Greener Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4531382
- Title
- Modigliani: A Life
- Author
- Jeffrey Meyers
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 071563657X
- ISBN 13
- 9780715636572
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Date Published
- 04/24/2008
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