ILLUSTRATIONS

  fm.1 [Frontispiece] Modigliani, c. 1916

    1.1 Chester Dale, c. 1930

    1.2 Maud Dale, 1927

    1.3 Gérard Philipe in the title role of Modigliani of Montparnasse, 1958

    2.1 The historians Julie Martin and Billy Klüver in Venice, 1988

    2.2 Flaminio Modigliani as a young man, no date

    2.3 The house in via Roma where Modigliani was born in 1884

    3.1 Eugénie and Flaminio Modigliani just before Amedeo Modigliani’s birth, 1884

    3.2 Dedo with his nurse

    3.3 An undated photograph of Uncle Amédée Garsin

    3.4 Amedeo Modigliani, Giovanni Fattori of the Macchiaoli school of Italian painting, and his wife

    3.5 The via Vittorio Emanuele

    3.6 The port of Livorno

    3.7 A school play

    3.8 Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani, 1900

    4.1 Giovanni Fattori, no date

    4.2 The photograph thought to be of Dedo found in G. E. Modigliani’s archive

    4.3 Portrait of himself wearing a sailor suit by Amedeo Modigliani

    4.4 Modigliani at work in a studio in Livorno, 1899

    4.5 Katherine Mansfield, 1918

    5.1 Modigliani, c. 1905

    5.2 Modigliani, Paris, c. 1906

    5.3 Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, 1906

    5.4 The Bois de Boulogne, 1905

    6.1 Cabaret du Lapin Agile

    6.2 A typical evening at the Lapin Agile

    6.3 The Bateau Lavoir, Montmartre

    6.4 The rue des Saules, Montmartre

    6.5 Chez Rosalie

    6.6 Rosalie

    6.7 Colette Comoy-Alexandre, Sceaux, outside Paris

    6.8 Noël Alexandre, a son of Paul Alexandre, Modigliani’s first patron

    6.9 The young doctor Paul Alexandre, 1909

  6.10 A theatrical evening at the rue du Delta

  6.11 The villa on the rue du Delta, 1913

  6.12 Modigliani’s study in watercolor of Maud Abrantes

  6.13 Brancusi, 1905

    7.1 Paul Alexandre’s younger brother Jean

    7.2 One of Modigliani’s early experiments in sculpture

    7.3 A preparatory sketch for The Cellist, 1910

    7.4 Anna Akhmatova, 1910

    7.5 A period view of the Luxembourg Gardens

    8.1 Modigliani’s studio at the Cité Falguière

    8.2 The popular terrace of the Rotonde, 1919–20

    8.3 Francis Carco, Michel Georges-Michel, and André Salmon, the bar of the Dôme

    8.4 The center of Montparnasse, the Carrefour Vavin, 1905

    8.5 Paris under water after the great flood, 1910

    8.6 “Le Douanier” Rousseau, 1890

    8.7 The painting of Jean Cocteau by Modigliani

    8.8 Maurice Utrillo, Susan Valadon, and his stepfather, André Utter, 1920s

    8.9 Soutine

  8.10 A recent view of the gated entrance to La Ruche

  8.11 Soutine, with his dealer, Léopold Zborowski, early 1920s

  8.12 Léopold Survage, 1935

  8.13 Modigliani’s watercolor of A Table-turning, or, Portrait of a Medium, 1905–06

    9.1 Modigliani posing with one of his sculptures, 1914

    9.2 Ossip Zadkine posing with his work, 1929

    9.3 Picasso on the Place Ravignan, 1904

    9.4 Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet on the rue Vavin

    9.5 Modigliani, center, at the Dôme with Adolphe Basler, during World War I

    9.6 Guillaume Chéron, one of Modigliani’s dealers, 1915

    9.7 Paul Guillaume, 1915

  10.1 Modigliani, about the time he met Beatrice Hastings

  10.2 Beatrice Hastings at the turn of the century

  10.3 Having a drink with the troops during World War I

  10.4 Beatrice Hastings, 1918

  10.5 Modigliani’s portrait of Diego Rivera, 1914

  10.6 A sketch by Marevna of Rivera, Modigliani, and the writer Ilya Ehrenburg, during World War I

  10.7 Marie Vassilieff’s café for artists during World War I

  10.8 Madame Pompadour, 1915

  10.9 Moïse Kisling and his wife Renée with Conrad Moricand, 1920

10.10 One of a series of photographs taken by Jean Cocteau, 1916

10.11 Pierrot, 1915

  11.1 The bombardment of Paris, 1918

  11.2 The sculptor Léon Indenbaum, 1915

  11.3 Jacques Lipchitz and his wife in Paris, c. 1920

  11.4 Lunia Czechowska, 1917

  11.5 Beatrice Hastings, 1924

  11.6 Beatrice Hastings in later years

  11.7 Vassilieff’s sketch of the night she gave a party for Braque and Modigliani appeared uninvited

  12.1 Modigliani’s art dealer, Léopold Zborowski, 1918

  12.2 Berthe Weill’s provocative poster for Modigliani’s first one-man show at her gallery, 1917

  12.3 Modigliani in Cannes in 1918, with Zborowski behind him, and his host, Osterlind

  12.4 Modigliani on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice

  13.1 The English artist-critic Roger Fry, c. 1925

  13.2 Paulette Jourdain

  13.3 The young Swedish girl Thora Klincköwstrom, 1919

  13.4 Modigliani’s portrait of Thora, 1919

  13.5 The last photograph of Modigliani, 1919

  13.6 The rue Jacob, Paris, Hôpital de la Charité

  13.7 The portrait of the Greek composer Mario Varvogli

  13.8 The death mask

  13.9 Typical of a fancy funeral of the period like the one which was accorded Modigliani

  14.1 The baby Jeanne in her Victorian perambulator, aged about fifteen months

  14.2 A French newspaper photograph of G. E. Modigliani fleeing with Turati, chief of the Italian Socialist Party, 1926

  14.3 Eugénie Modigliani at Carlsbad, c. 1925

  14.4 Jeanne Modigliani in Paris aged thirty-five, 1953

  14.5 G. E. Modigliani in America, 1935

  14.6 A rare photograph of Valdi and Jeanne together, postwar

  14.7 The British artist John Myatt

  14.8 The art historian and museum director Marc Restellini

  14.9 Jeanne Modigliani, not long before her death in 1984

 bm.1 The studio apartment on the rue de la Grande Chaumière

 bm.2 The derelict apartment on the rue de la Grande Chaumière before being renovated in 2007 by Godefroy Jarzaguet

 bm.3 Modigliani, 1909