1958 After Amedeo Modigliani "Self-Portrait", First English Edition Photogravure

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A stunning vintage First Edition photogravure (print) after Self-Portrait (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a First Limited English Edition … more A stunning vintage First Edition photogravure (print) after Self-Portrait (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a First Limited English Edition folio published in London, England, in 1958. Signed in the print at the top right corner: "Modigliani". Printed on one side. Numbered. Hand tipped on a board of heavy paper. Information regarding the original artwork will be found by lifting the plate. Detailed. Beautiful colors. Excellent condition - minor age wear on the board, never framed.

Overall 10.25"W x 14"H
Image 6.5"L x 10.10"H

The original painting was painted by Amedeo Modigliani a year before he died. The painting is in the Collection of Mr and Mrs Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this self-portrait Modigliani made no attempt at likeliness, he has deliberately - for stylistic reasons - drawn out and extended his handsome face. For he had finely chiseled features, with one of those strong, willful chins one so often meets with in people, who, like Modigliani, are not strong-willed at all. The picture comes alive thanks to the pervasive rhythm of the artist's characteristic linework, all grace and simplicity, always noble and expressive.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884 - 1920) was an Italian artist of Jewish heritage, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in Northwestern Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overworking, and an excessive use of alcohol and narcotics, at the age of 35. less