Modigliani at the Royal Academy.(Amedeo Modigliani)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Bruce, Donald | Copyright information

MODIGLIANI and his Models, an exhibition of over fifty of his works at the Royal Academy (8 July 2006-15 October 2006), is the first full register of his achievement to be displayed in Britain since the Edinburgh Modigliani of 1963. In most respects it enhances the painter's reputation.

When Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) arrived in Paris at the age of twenty-two, he trailed behind him, in lieu of luggage, memories of the great masters of his own recently united country. ...

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