Amedeo Modigliani Paintings

Modigliani paintings come from the career of famous Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani and this website is devoted to the paintings of this fine artist. You can find below a great collection of his 25 most art works and there is also detailed information on Amedeo Modigliani himself. The artist also produced many impressive sculptures which themselves received art academic respect but this website concentrates solely on his work with oil on canvas, which remains what he is best known for. There are also Modigliani paintings here.

Amedeo Modigliani was best known for his nude portraits which he created in his own painting style that was quite unique and helped to immediately set his career out from all others at that time. The career of Modigliani started to create interest around the start of the 20th century, but sadly the artist's life was over soon after and his career ultimately cut short. Despite this his years as an artist were highly productive and as such there is still plenty of work to enjoy in this website.

Modigliani paintings typically were figurative and his style is generally classified loosely as Modern. One element of this involved elongated features amongst his portraits which invariably were women, with several featuring frequently as he started to build relationships with his favoured models. This is a frequent scenario for many famous portrait painters and in the case of Modigliani there was the added dimension that many were portrayed nude.

Modigliani was an Italian who found a home for his unusual and highly contemporary painting style in the European art melting pot that was Paris. It was here that similarly creative artists who preferred to live on the edge of society could mix freely and inspire each other with new ideas and influences. It was here that the artist eventually died having fought against alcohol and drug problems which resulted from his poor living conditions plus the unstable mind which he had always struggled with.

Jeanne Hebuterne can be seen above in one of Modigliani's best portraits. Jeanne Hebuterne herself became well acquainted with the artist and she was to become the best known model of all those that he used. There were several works in which she featured, but this is probably the most impressive.

The paintings of Amedeo Modigliani have grown in popularity in recent years, with his style becoming more readily accepted within the American and European art public. For this reason there are now many reproductions of his original paintings available to buy in many different art formats, with the most popular being framed giclee art prints, posters and stretched canvases. The links provided in this website offer you the chance to buy Modigliani reproductions from Art.com who are the leading international supplier of art products.

Nude paintings were very common for Modigliani, as shown by the likes of Beautiful Roman Girl, Reclining Nude, Seated Nude and Weiblicher Akt Nude. Amedeo was someone who was emotional and charming to many women who were attracted by his highly unusual character and strong desire for non-conformity. This was underlined by the relationships which he held with several women featured in his nude portrait paintings.

Modigliani was a passionate artist who eventually set his emotions against traditional art teachings which he himself had ensured as a young painter. The artist decided that this was very much the wrong way to go and he would furiously tear down renaissance paintings from his own studio once he had come about this polarised new opinion. His fellow dislike of art academics also went hand in hand with this and the painter expelled huge amounts of energy in the continued disliking of these strong institutions.

Madame Van Muyden is one of the artist's better known portraits and features the typical approach used by the painter in all of his later portrait paintings where he combined elongated faces and limbs with a consistent colour scheme. The success now apportioned to the work of Modigliani has led to even the models that he used becoming study topics for academics who have become highly curious about his colourful life.

Tuberculosis took over the life of the artist who resorted to drink and drugs in order to disguise the symptoms that otherwise would have given him away and led to Modigliani being subjected to poor reactions from others at a time when the disease had a strong foothold right across France. The side effects of such overuse of these led to his beahaviour becoming more and more extreme over the years that followed his initial contraction of the disease.

Modigliani Sketch

Red Head

Jeanne Hebuterne in Red Shawl

Woman with Red Hair

Woman in a Large Hat

Reclining Nude

List of Famous Modigliani Paintings

Please see below for a summarised list of the best Amedeo Modigliani paintings that are featured throughout this website.

• Gypsy Woman with Baby
• Reclining Nude
• Seated Nude
• Standing Nude - Elvira
• Woman with Red Hair
• Portrait of Maude Abrantes
• Madame Pompadour
• Portrait of Jaques and Berthe Lipchitz
• Red Nude
• Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl
• Seated Nude
• Dedie Hayden
• Self-portrait

More Modigliani Paintings

Jeune Fille Brune Assise

Jeanne Hebuterne aux Epaules Nues

Girl with Pigtails

Seated Nude

Caretaker's Son

Female Face

Woman in a Brown Dress

Cello Player

Beautiful Roman Girl

Jean Cocteau

Weiblicher Akt Nude

Mme Hebuterne in a Blue Chair

Jeanne Hebuterne

Pictures

Drawings

Modigliani Portrait

Modigliani Images

Antonia

Head of a Woman

Modigliani Woman

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