Archivio ceroni modigliani biography
WORKING ACROSS SEVERAL media in the course of a short but intense career, Amedeo Modigliani became an accomplished draughtsman, sculptor and painter.
While Ceroni 's bio- graphical section is based largely on Czechowska's memories, his main focus is on the iconography of Modigliani 's art....
Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani, sculptor
Chronology of sculptures
The Modigliani's sculptor activity is one of the most intricated topic in the artist's historiography, since it turns out to be poorly documented.
The greatest inaccuracies mainly concern the years in which the artist sculpted and consequently the dating of each works to which we have to added a further obstacle constituted by an imprecise cataloging of the preparatory drawings of the Alexandre collection, approximately classified among those "realized before April " and after that date.
If we add to this that Modigliani dated a very few drawings, it becomes clear that trying to re-establishing a correct chronology of the sculptures through these works it's only a waste of time.. Modigliani sculptures must be contextualised, paying attention to grasp the influences that intrigued the artist during some periods of his career, as well as the affinities - and differences - between these works: if this procedure wi