"The man who does not know how to draw from his energy new desires, and almost a new individual, destined always to demolish all that has remained old and rotten, in order to assert himself, is not a man, he is a bourgeois, a grocer, whatever you like."
Amedeo Modigliani...
"The man who does not know how to draw from his energy new desires, and almost a new individual, destined always to demolish all that has remained old and rotten, in order to assert himself, is not a man, he is a bourgeois, a grocer, whatever you like."
Amedeo Modigliani, Letter to his compatriot and artist Oscar Ghiglia, 1905
Amedeo Modigliani was born on 12 July 1884 in Livorno (Italy) and died in Paris on 24 January 1920. At the turn of the century, he began painting in his home town before moving to Paris in 1906. An emblematic figure among Parisian bohemians, writers and artists, in less than two decades he became one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.
Exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie from 20 September 2023 to 15 January 2024.
Bilingual French / english
64 pages / 31 illustrations
