Vintage Amadeo Modigliani Editions Du Chene Modernist Folio Size Lithograph

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This vintage modernist lithograph (offset) by the world famous artist Amadeo Modigliani (Italy/France 1884-1920) is from a mid 20th century … Read more This vintage modernist lithograph (offset) by the world famous artist Amadeo Modigliani (Italy/France 1884-1920) is from a mid 20th century French Editions Du Chene portfolio. Great color and composition, the image drawn in Modigliani's iconic style. The image is laid down on thicker stock (easily removable if you wish to have it framed w/out the sheet of thicker stock). Title and information about each image is under the lower right corner of the image (it is lightly tacked in). Printed on one side only in France. Modigliani's images are extremely popular today. Please view our other Modigliani lithographs from this series. Dimensions ( entire sheet): 11"W x 14.5"H.

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Amedeo Modigliani was the epitome of a tragic artist. Born to a bourgeois family in Italy, he later shunned his academic upbringing and willingly devolved into a poverty stricken vagabond. He was formally educated as a life painter in his teens, quickly developing a life-long infatuation with nudes. In 1902 he moved to Florence to study at the Academia di Belle Arti, at the “Free School of Nude Studies,” and a year later he moved to Venice as a fledgling artist, where he smoked hashish for the first time. It was only after he discovered narcotics that he developed the philosophical belief that the only path to creativity was through defiance of social norms and disorder in life. Thus began a life long affliction with corrupted beauty, which would ultimately end with his untimely death and the suicide of his grief-stricken wife and their unborn child.

Although he purposely created a life in which chaos, poverty, and doom lurked in every corner, he was a prolific artist. He sketched furiously, sometimes drawing over 100 sketches in a day, but many of his works were either lost, given away, or in some cases, destroyed by Modigliani himself. His favorite subject was by far the human form, painting the likenesses of other artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Max Jacob, and Juan Gris, who all sat for the artist. His formal works are characterized an elongation of the human form and mask-like faces, and his work is so unlike any other of his time that it still defies classification. During his time, other artists emulated him by engaging in a self-destructive lifestyle, and today, his legacy lives on in nine novels, a play, a documentary, and three feature films. See less