His life was the stuff of Hollywood. His art is the stuff of dreams. Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian painter and sculptor, created groundbreaking works that rivaled or even surpassed those of Pablo ...

Amedeo Modigliani — his first name means “beloved of God” — became known soon after his death as le maudit — the cursed one. An Italian painter who lived in Paris just before and after World War I, ...

Modigliani was also friendly with Picasso, though not part of his inner circle. Picasso, who affected a workingman’s look with his patched clothes and fisherman’s sweaters, seems to have admired ...