CAIRO -- A diamond in the rough, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art houses works by more than 1,500 Egyptian artists, mostly from the middle and late 20th century, including the internationally renowned painters Mahmoud Said and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar and the sculptor Mahmoud Moukhtar. Also known as the Gezira Art Center, the museum, occupying an...
MODIGLIANI A Life By Meryle Secrest Illustrated. 387 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. With his milky skin and sleepy eyes, Amedeo Modigliani was one of modern art's fabled beauties. His life was box-office gold, a classic mortal tale of squalor and salvation. An artist-genius sinks under the weight of poverty, illness and addiction, dies at 35, leaving...
Serbian prosecutors say they believe that Goran Hadzic, a former Croatian Serb rebel leader wanted for war crimes, may have tried to raise money for his life in hiding by selling a painting by Amedeo Modigliani, The Associated Press reported. On Thursday Serbian police officers searching the home of one of Mr. Hadzic's friends for clues about his...
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12. juli 1884 – 24. januar 1920) var en italiensk billedhugger og maler.