Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1884)

Amedeo Modigliani

Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani 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…