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Modigliani was born in 1886 in an Italian ghetto. His father
died at an early age and his mother, a descendant of the Dutch philosopher,
Spinoza, supported her son's aptitude for art,, and sent him to study
in Florence and Venice and to visit museums throughout Italy. |
Modigliani
traveled to Paris in 1907, already sick from tuberculosis, and virtually
penniless. His likability and great talent allowed him to lean on
fellow artists for shelter and space to create his paintings and sculpture.
His earliest paintings were slightly influenced by Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec, but the bulk of
his surviving works dating from 1915 to 1920 indicate his interest
in African sculpture, in Paul
Cezanne, and the Cubist
works of Georges Braque and Pablo
Picasso.
Iin 1917, Modigliani married Jeanne Hebuterne
and the couple settled to start a family in poverty. Modigliani died
in a Paris hospital on a January day in 1920. His desperate widow
threw herself from the roof of her parents' apartment house on the
day of his funeral, leaving their daughter to be reared by her maternal
grandparents.
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