| 1911 |
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Modigliani exhibited his sculptures in the studio of Souza Cardoso. |
| 1912 |
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Modigliani showed a series of sculpted heads as Tetes, ensemble decoratif in the Salon d'Automne. He went back for the last time to Livorno and the quarries of Carrara. |
| 1914 |
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In May/June Modigliani participated in the exhibition 'Twentieth Century Art' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. With the outbreak of war his friendship with Paul Alexandre ended.
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| 1914-1915 |
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Modigliani got to know the English poet Beatrice Hastings and lived with her for the next few years. The art dealer Paul Guillaume became interested in Modigliani's works and arranged the first sales. His artistic success made him optimistic, as can be seen in his letters to his mother, to whom he was very dose. Possibly on account of his continuing poor health and the increasing problems of procuring stone, Modigliani turned his back on sculpture and took up painting again. In his first works the colour was applied in a choppy, dabbed manner-befitting a sculptor-reminiscent of Pointillism. This technique was superseded by the angular style influenced by the Futurists and Cubists and harking back to the tradition of primitive sculpture. The subject of all his works was the portrait. As models Modigliani used friends, acquaintances or people he got to know by chance in cafes. In addition to oil painting he also concentrated on drawing. The artist peddled his drawings in bars and cafes and in this way paid for his meals. |
| 1916 |
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Modigliani met Leopold Zborowski who replaced Paul Guillaume as his art dealer and did all he could for the artist in a self-sacrificing manner. Zborowski got him a studio and contributed towards his daily keep. In the following years Modigliani made very many portraits of him and his wife. |
| 1917 |
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Modigliani began his first series of nude studies. A second and third series followed in 1918 and 1919. He got to know Jeanne 1-16buterne, a student at the Academie Colorists. Against her parents' wishes the two moved in together. Between 3 and 30 December the Berthe Weill gallery in Paris showed the first individual exhibition of Modigliani's works for which Leopold Zborowski assembled some thirty paintings and drawings. The announcement was adorned by a poem from Blaise Cendrars. The exhibited nudes caused a public outcry, so that the exhibition was closed down by the police soon after it opened and was a financial flop. |
| 1918 |
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His progressive tuberculosis and the turbulent atmosphere in Paris during the war forced Modigliani to retire for a year to the Cote d'Azur near Nice and Cagnes. In the south of France Modigliani's colour palette became lighter and his figures got longer faces and thinner necks. Modigliani abandoned the hitherto accepted canon of painting only half-length portraits in favour of three-quarter-length and life-size portraits of children and adolescents from the local area. The four remaining landscapes by him date from this period. On 29 November his daughter Jeanne was born. In December Paul Guillaume organized another exhibition with Modigliani's works in the Faubourg Saint Honore in Paris. |
| 1919 |
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Modigliani kept up his close contacts with Zborowski and his wife in his letters from the south of France. He was in a good frame of mind but often had no money. He sent his finished works to Paris to be sold.
In May Modigliani returned to Paris with Jeanne Hebuterne and his daughter. Though he was now seriously ill he kept up his dissipated lifestyle. In July he planned to legitimize his relationship with Jeanne Hebuterne, who was pregnant again. Further artistic triumphs, once more thanks to Zborowski's efforts, gave him fresh hope.
The exhibition 'Modem French Art', in which Modigliani participated, was put on at the Mansard Gallery in Heale. In September the Hill Gallery in London showed ten of the artist's works. He was also represented at the Salon d'Automne. In the winter Modigliani planned another visit to Italy. |
| 1920 |
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His health deteriorated rapidly. On 24 January
Amedeo Modigliani died in the Hospital de la Charite. The next day Jeanne Hebuterne, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, committed suicide. The
funeral, attended by a large number of his friends,
took place at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
The first exhibition after the artist's death was held
in the same year at the Galeries Montaigne in Paris. |
| 1922 |
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In the 13th Biennale in Venice dedicated a small retrospective to Modigliani. |
| 1923 |
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The Musee de Grenoble became the first French museum to acquire a painting by him, the Femme
au Col Blanc from 1917. |
| 1930 |
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A compendium of texts from Modigliani's friends, edited by Giovanni Scheiwiller, appeared under the
title Omaggio a Modigliani. |
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