Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who pursued his career for the most part in France. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic.

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• I try to formulate with the greatest clarity the truth about art and life, in the way that I experienced it.

• La vita è un dono, dei pochi ai molti, di coloro che sanno e che hanno a coloro che non sanno e che non hanno.
  • Translation: The life is a gift, from the few to the most, from those who know and have to those who do not know and have.
  • To the model Lunia Czechowska.