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Jeanne Hébuterne
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Title:Jeanne Hébuterne
Artist:Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, Livorno – Paris)
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Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions × 28 3/4 in. ( × 73 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold,
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Inscription: Signed (upper right): modigliani
[Leopold Zborowski, Paris]; probably Gaston Monteux, Paris and Cap d'Antibes (–d. ; by descent to Reichenbach); his daughter and son-in-law, Germaine Monteux and Bernard Reichenbach, Paris (probably –37; his sale, "Tableaux Modernes Provenant de la Collection de Monsieur R. B," Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 3, , no. 18, as "Déshabillé au fauteuil," sold for Fr 30, to Bing); [Galerie Bing, Paris, –51; sold in to Lindon]; [Jacques Lindon, New York, ; sold on September 26, to Spingold]; Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, New York (–56; their gift to MMA)
Paris. Bing & Cie. "Modigliani," October 24–November 15, , no. 4 or 19 (as "Madame Modigliani" or "Portrait de Madame Modigliani").
London. Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd. "Amedeo Modigliani, –," March 17–April 9, , no. 20 (as "Portrait d'Hébuterne assise," ).
Paris. Galerie de France. "Modigliani, – Peintures," December 21, –January 31, , no. 30
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Who Was Amedeo Modigliani, and Why Is His Art So Important?
Generous Uncle Amédée died in , and it was likely with some inheritance money that Modigliani moved to Paris in January Among his many Parisian addresses, he lived at first at a hotel near La Madeleine and became a regular at Chez Rosalie, a restaurant in Montparnasse whose proprietor, fellow Italian Rosalie Tobia, took pity on the artist and often accepted drawings as payment.
At the end of that first year, in December , Modigliani hung three small paintings in the window of Laura Wylda’s gallery on Rue des Saints-Pères, but none sold. A year later, in October , he exhibited two oil paintings and five watercolors at the Salon d’Automne and soon met his first patron, Dr. Paul Alexandre. Alexandre commissioned portraits of himself and his family members, slowly amassing works so that by he owned around 25 paintings and drawings by Modigliani.
Modigliani enmeshed himself in the social circles of artistic émigrés to Paris. Fellow Italian artist Gino Severini was one of his first friends in the city. Another close friend was Chaim Soutine, whom he met in , the same year that he briefly lived with Diego Rivera at his studio at 26 Rue du Départ. Later that year he met English poet Beatrice Hastings; the two had a t
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Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist and artist (–)
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