1958 After A. Modigliani "Head of Kisling", First English Edition Photogravure

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An excellent large vintage First Edition photogravure (print) after painting "Head of Kisling" (1915) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a … more An excellent large vintage First Edition photogravure (print) after painting "Head of Kisling" (1915) by Amedeo Modigliani. Comes from a rare First Limited English Edition folio published in London, 1958. Signed in the print at the top right corner: "Modigliani o15 KISLING". 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. Excellent condition - minor age wear on the board, never framed.

Overall 10.25"W x 14"H
Image 8.20"L x 10.5"H

Moïse Kisling (1891 – 1953) was a Polish-born French painter. He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946. A fine painter in his own right, he was one of Modigliani's closest friends. When the artist died of tuberculosis in 1920, Kisling was at his bedside; it was he who made the arrangements for his funeral as well as for that of Jeanne Hébuterne, who committed suicide a few hours after Modigliani's death.

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