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“Because you look at the world with one eye, while with the other you look into yourself.”
The Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani is one of the most famous figures in Parisian bohemia at the start of the 20th century. If his sculptural practice is inspired by primitive models, in the manner of Brancusi, his painting adopts a unique style whereby the artist indulges in mannerism, stretching his figures or bending them into sensual arabesques. Modigliani likes to portray his friends, all members of the Parisian avant-garde: Diego Rivera, Juan Gris, Moïse Kisling, Pablo Picasso ... His portraits offer a faithful reflection of the internationalism of the Ecole de Paris in the 1910s.