Published to coincide with a first major exhibition of the primary artist's work in more than forty years, a treasury of Montparnasse pieces contains sixty-four reproductions complemented by excerpts from a previously unpublished novelette by one of Modigliani's lovers.

Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse

Arts & Photography

Wayne, Kenneth

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

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Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse (EXHIBITION CATALOGUE)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Abrams / Albright-Knox

Book by Wayne, Kenneth, Green, Christopher

Picasso Braque Leger and the Cubist Spirit 1919-1939

GREEN, Christopher

Univ of Washington Pr

From the publisher: "Auguste Rodin brought monumental public sculpture forward into the modern era. Although educated in the academic traditions and idealized subjects of classical and Renaissance sculpture, he embraced truth to nature as his artistic credo. His uncanny ability to imbue inert substances with movement and feeling reveals the idiosyncrasies and psychological depths of the human subjects that he portrayed. His agile use of form and the bravura of his modeling in pursuit of turbulent, light-catching surfaces have established him as one of the progenitors of modern sculpture. Three monumental sculptures spanning the last thirty years of Rodin's career represent the force and vigor of his approach, which emphasized the quality of flesh while suggesting emotion through detailed, textured surfaces and the interplay of light and shadow upon them. The Three Shades (c. 1880), from the private collection of Iris Cantor, is an introspective group study in which the standing figure of Adam from The Gates of Hell is repeated in shifting perspective; Monument to Victor Hugo (1897), on loan from the renowned Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is a stirring meditation on artist and muse, a roiling figure composition that depicts the great artist deep in thought; The Whistler Muse (1908), on loan from the Musée Rodin, was intended to honour a commission in tribute to the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler who had requested not to be physically represented - in response Rodin chose the symbolic image of the muse. Rendered like a classical fragment, the armless female figure attempts to climb a mountain in an allegory of the challenge of artistic creation. Rodin's sculptures are shown here in unexpected and unprecedented combination with a series of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the world's most admired living photographers."

Rodin - Sugimoto

AUGUSTE RODIN

Hiroshi, Sugimoto

Gallery

Amadeo Modigliani displays the dialogue that the young Italian artist maintained with antic and extra-Western sculptures from 1910 to 1914. It specifically highlights studies of heads and caryatides, and Modigliani's patient analysis work, such as modulating facial features. Health and financial conditions forced Modigliani to renounce sculpture in 1914. The second part features portraits of Modigliani's friends, also actors of the Parisian avant-garde from Picasso's circle, such as the writer Max Jacob, the merchant Paul Guillaume, Moise Kisling, Viking Eggeling, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens and Leopold Survage. Beyond friendship, these portraits reveal artistic exchanges, where painters and sculptors became Modigliani's models. In his last years, Modigliani perfected his portrait's style, which made him successful: the frame widens, his palette lightens under the influence of Cezanne. In 1918, he met Dutilleul, who purchased around thirty of his paintings and numerous drawings between 1918 and 1946 and posed as his model in 1919.

Amedeo Modigliani: The Inner Eye

COLLECTIFS

Krebs, Sophie

Senot, Marie-Amélie

Verdavaine, Stéphanie

Lévy, Sophie

Lacourt, Jeanne-Bathilde

Décimo, Marc

Joyeux-Prunel, Béatrice

Individual Artists

Gallimard]

•Published to accompany a traveling exhibition, this volume features sixty-five drawings by Noguchi and ink painting and calligraphic works by Qi, brought together for the first time In 1930, renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) journeyed to Beijing, where he studied with the Chinese brush-and-ink painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957). Qi, greatly admired for his dynamic brushwork and calligraphy, had a profound impact on Noguchi. As he later said, 'All Japanese art has roots in China.' Isamu Noguchi/Qi Baishi/Beijing 1930 brings together the work of these two artists for the first time. Noguchi's drawings suggest a keen observation of Qi's masterful skills and artistry with free-spirited lines, bold brushstrokes, and a purposeful use of void space.

Isamu Noguchi/Qi Baishi/Beijing 1930

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