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基本説明
The career of the Italian-born painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani was brief, but prolific. This catalogue accompanies the retrospective
exhibition organized by LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut, which boasts one of France's finest public collections of work by the famous artist of Montparnasse : no fewer than six paintings, seven drawings, and a rare marble sculpture,
all acquired by Roger Dutilleul and Jean Masurel, founders of the museum's collection of modern art. Echoing the exhibition's layout, the catalogue Amedeo Modigliani : The Inner Eye revisits Modigliani's output, focusing on three aspects of his life and work. The authors turn the spotlight on the years during which he was interested mainly in sculpture, examining his artistic dialogue with ancient and non-Western art and quest for a "synthesizing," spiritual art. As World War I broke out, Modigliani was developing his style as a portraitist, using as models the artists making up the free-spirited community on the fringes of society to which he himself belonged. This volume also explores the special relationship between Modigliani's work and the collector Roger Dutilleul ; the two met in 1917, less than
three years before the artist's premature death. The catalogue includes approximately one hundred reproductions of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Modigliani, alongside works by Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaïm Soutine, Moïse
Kisling, and Henri Laurens, among others.
Full Description
Amadeo Modigliani displays the dialogue that the young Italian artist maintained with antic and extra-Western sculptures from 1910 to 1914. It specifically highlights studies of heads and caryatides, and Modigliani's patient analysis work, such as modulating facial features. Health and financial conditions forced Modigliani to renounce sculpture in 1914. The second part features portraits of Modigliani's friends, also actors of the Parisian avant-garde from Picasso's circle, such as the writer Max Jacob, the merchant Paul Guillaume, Moise Kisling, Viking Eggeling, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens and Leopold Survage. Beyond friendship, these portraits reveal artistic exchanges, where painters and sculptors became Modigliani's models. In his last years, Modigliani perfected his portrait's style, which made him successful: the frame widens, his palette lightens under the influence of Cezanne. In 1918, he met Dutilleul, who purchased around thirty of his paintings and numerous drawings between 1918 and 1946 and posed as his model in 1919.
Contents
Introduction; 4 essays: Modigliani and the art of distant countries; Artists' portraits; Roger Dutilleul and Modigliani; Modigliani and art market. Androgyny in Modigliani's art; Modigliani's library; Modigliani at Nice; Illustrated chronology; Modigliani's models' biographies.
