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With key works from his highly individualistic repertoire, this book introduces Modigliani''''s brief but revered career at the heart of Paris''''s early modernist hotbed.īorn back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. About Modigliani Taschen - Hardcover Book - Doris Krystof.

Although most renowned for his nude females, he applied similar stylistic techniques to portraits of male artistic contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Chaim Soutine. Modigliani''''s unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy. A unique type of beauty In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani(1884 1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes. Doris Krystof has written an excellent biography which covers Modiglianis life and career in great detail. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as they are startling, sensual, and swan-necked. In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history.

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