Modigliani - Hardcover

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MODIGLIANI - BOHEMIAN PRINCE
Paris, 1917. Amedeo Modigliani meets nineteen year old art school student, Jeanne Hebuterne at a carnival. Leaving her family to share his attic room in Montparnasse, she brings into his bohemian life everything he had always dreamed of; grace, love, admiration, devotion. He tirelessly sketches her.
Now propelled by illness, addiction, drink and drugs to abandon sculpture, he is a man for whom painting is a struggle, a painful obsession even. Despite his peers Picasso, Matisse and Soutine already flirting with consecration, his first one-man exhibition at Gallery Weill provokes outrage, and his nude paintings are taken off the walls.
Mogidliani is as paradoxical as his paintings; passionate but inconstant, his love for Jeanne is undermined by his nights with beggars. Even his friend and patron Leopold Zlobowski, deep in admiration of his talent, must endure his relentless sarcasm and rages.
The German forces have already targeted Paris, so when Jeanne becomes pregnant, they escape to Nice. After the end of the war and the birth of their daughter, when he returns to Paris, success seems within reach. But seriously ill, he dies in January 1920. Glory, then, must be posthumous.
Fabrice Le Hénanff's exceptional artwork is very realistic. He heightens the sensory nature of the atmosphere he describes with vivid descriptions of warmer colours; the shades of the South of France. He gives life to places of the past through faces, perfumes and tactile sensations. It is never easy to reanimate icons. Laurent Seksik and Fabrice Le Hénanff meet the challenge by revisiting and illuminating the last years of Modigliani's life.

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