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Amedeo Modigliani · c. 1918
Amedeo Modigliani: 1884–1920
Other names (5)
Amedeo Modilʹi︠a︡ni, Amedeo Modiljani, Amīdivū Mūdilyānī, Dedo, Modì
Biography
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (US: ; Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought after.
Modigliani was born and spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. By 1912, Modigliani was exhibiting highly stylised sculptures with Cubists of the Section d'Or group at the Salon d'Automne.
Modigliani's oeuvre includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. His main subjects were portraits and full figures, both in images and in the sculpture. Modigliani had little success while alive but after his death achieved great popularity. He died of tubercular meningitis, at the age of 35, in Paris.
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Influenced by
- Constantin Brâncușieditorial inference
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- Giovanni Fattorieditorial inference
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- Constantin Brâncușieditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Amedeo Modigliani. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art19 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art13 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago11 recorded works
- Villa Necchi Campiglio8 recorded works
- Musée d'art moderne de Paris6 recorded works
- Musée de l’Orangerie6 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)5 recorded works
- Minneapolis Institute of Art4 recorded works
- Museum of Modern Art4 recorded works
- Tate3 recorded works
- Hecht Museum (University of Haifa), Haifa, Israel2 recorded works
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art2 recorded works
- musée d'Art Moderne — Troyes2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen2 recorded works
- The Barnes Foundation2 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art2 recorded works
- Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM), Oberlin, OH, US1 recorded work
- Denver Art Museum1 recorded work
- E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland1 recorded work
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art1 recorded work
- Finnish National Gallery1 recorded work
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna1 recorded work
- Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts1 recorded work
- Kunsthaus Zürich1 recorded work
- Kunstmuseum Basel1 recorded work
- Kunstmuseum Bern1 recorded work
- Musée Angladon, Avignon, France1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Nancy1 recorded work
- Musée National d'Art Moderne1 recorded work
- Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori1 recorded work
- Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Victoria1 recorded work
- Neue Nationalgalerie1 recorded work
- Philadelphia Museum of Art1 recorded work
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1 recorded work
- Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany1 recorded work
- Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
