Publications by tag: Amedeo Modigliani

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.

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.

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…

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?

To miss the chance of visiting the unique exhibitions of the capital hosting the World Cup 2018, is like to score an own goal. Football will not forgive this to you! The mystical Vermeer, demonic Vrubel, uncompromising Malevich, philosophical Roerich, succulent Konchalovsky, appetizing Deineka, romantic Zverev, admirable Picasso - they all make up just a part of the artistic team that is…

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.

Starring Andy Garcia and directed by Mick Davis, the 2004 feature film Modigliani begins with a lengthy screen of text. It explains in detail that the shown characters, events and pictures have nothing to do with reality. This is the first time the viewer wonders why the film is declared biographical. This question will come to your mind more and more often, especially if you are unlucky enough…

These are not only Amedeo Modigliani's melancholic subjects that are special. His life – tragic, but hectic, and sometimes even wild – is also unique. Here we revive the brightest moments of his brief but eventful biography.

$59-Million Cézanne Leads the Impressionists and modernists sale at Christie's