Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (, Italian: [ameˈdɛːo modiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a advanced style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received skillfully during his lifetime, but innovative became much sought-after. Modigliani spent his puberty in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he came into log on with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. By 1912 Modigliani was exhibiting highly stylized sculptures gone Cubists of the Section d’Or bureau at the Salon d’Automne.
Modigliani’s oeuvre includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. His main subject was portraits and full figures, both in the images and in the sculptures. Modigliani had Tiny success even though alive, but after his death achieved good popularity. He died of tubercular meningitis, at the age of 35, in Paris.
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