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On Wednesday, 18 April, a New York State judge denied the motion of the powerful art-dealing Nahmad family to dismiss a long-running battle over the ownership of Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane" (1918). Judge Eileen Bransten ruled that the case is alive and would be considered under New York law instead of French law as was argued by the Nahmads. It was clear from her 40-page…

Nu Couche (Sur Le Cote Gauche) by Modigliani sells for $157.2 mln., record sum for Sotheby’s House, just short of top price for artist. It is said by Sotheby's to be the greatest painting from Modigliani's series of once-controversial nudes. Completed in 1917, it was also the largest painting of his career and became the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction.

This month the Christie's auction house - one of the largest in the world - celebrated 250 years since its foundation. During this time it has grown from a modest business, which one person served, to an international network with 2.5 thousand employees and annual revenue of 6.1 billion dollars. We offer you ten of the most high-profile records that were set in the Christie's auction.

Modigliani's girl's portrait was found underneath his later also "Portrait of a girl', which was painted in 1917, kept at the Tate Gallery, London. Another portrait, hidden underneath the Italian artist's famous painting, was revealed with x-ray technology. It has been concealed in plain sight for over a century.

Two thirds of Modigliani paintings exhibited at Genoa's Palazzo Ducale during four months in 2017 have been declared fake by the expert appointed by a Genoa court in a prosecutor’s probe started three days prior the scheduled closing of the show. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that 20 out of 21 oil paintings under police concerns were just being confirmed as forgeries.

Tate Modern's retrospective of Modigliani's work features intense portraits, including one of Pablo Picasso, and 12 nudes – the largest group ever shown together in the UK. All paintings were distributed throughout 10 galleries with tact, sobriety, care and delicacy. For this show, even Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp has reneged on its rules. Curators want to shine new light on an artist…

Having received the order for one painting by Ferdinand Leger, 49-year-old Vjeran Tomic, dubbed “Spiderman,” could not resist to steal 5 masterpieces by the renowned artists from the Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris Modern Art Museum). Lost canvases by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Ferdinand Leger and Amedeo Modigliani worth an estimated €110-million. The sentence given to the…

Amedeo and Jeanne lived together for a very short time, not very happily, and died two days apart.

Last year, there were no exorbitant amounts at the auctions like "Savior of the World" by Leonardo da Vinci, sold for $ 450.3 million in 2017. But in the top 10 most expensive works sold by auction, there are new world records for major artists. The total amount paid for the top ten lots of the outgoing year is about 915 million 157 thousand 400 dollars. It's impressive, isn't it?