Article: 'Amadeo Modigliani, Jew': Modigliani is set in his Jewish context in an exhibition that has just moved from New York to Ontario.(Critical Essay)

Modigliani is such a well-known painter that it is hard to believe this was the first exhibition of his work in New York in over fifty years. There have been shows of Iris work elsewhere, such as the one at Paris's Musee Luxembourg in the winter of 2003. That exhibition looked at Modigliani as one of the leading figures of the Paris art scene for the years spanning from just before World War I to 1920, the year he died, at thirty-five, from tubercular meningitis. This one, organised by New York's Jewish Museum, emphasises his Jewish origins.

Most people probably do not know that Modigliani was a Sephardic Jew, although the name is enough to make them guess that ...

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