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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This landmark book presents 450 masterful drawings by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) that will forever alter the Italian artist’s reputation. These drawings have never before been published or exhibited; they have been in storage for more than seventy years and are the only evidence of the artist’s work during the crucial years of 1906-14 until now the most obscure period in Modigliani’s life. The drawings were purchased and collected by the French physician Paul Alexandre to whom the study of modern art is greatly indebted. When Modigliani arrived in Paris in 1906 Alexandre was the artist’s closest friend and only patron regularly buying the artist’s work. These draw- ings-academic sketches theater drawings caryatids sculp- ture heads nudes portraits and studies for paintings- clearly show that Modigliani had developed his mature style much earlier than previously believed and that he became a convert to modern art from the moment he arrived in Paris. The aristocratic Modigliani refused to involve himself with anything other than his art. This meant he often went hungry the sometimes daily purchases by Paul Alexandre were his principal source of income. The doctor kept a record of what he bought thus today his collection which also includes previously unpublished letters manuscripts and photographs of Modigliani’s fellow artists. (OS)