Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)

The Italian foundation has announced the first edition of a prize that will be awarded to five emerging artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, installations and literature. Winners will benefit from a personal exhibition accompanied by a catalog; the literature winner will be published.

Painted by a Modigliani at the peak of his career, La Bourguignonne is returning to the market, which is already shaping up to be an event. Let's return to the history behind this painting from 1918

French museums and laboratories have conducted an unprecedented investigation into Amedeo Modigliani, whose work is dogged by a demonic legend and all manner of scandals.

3 sketches by Amedeo Modigliani have been found using X-ray technology under his 1908 painting Nude with a Hat at the University of Haifa’s Hecht Museum. The work also has a separate painting the other way up on the reverse. Specific details of what is under the painting have not been revealed by the museum. (ARTnews)

Who says temptation must be resisted? This sale of 17 carefully chosen lots, including a meteorite, a portrait by Modigliani, and a 154-million-year-old theropod skeleton, lives up to its name.

In 2018, Amedeo Modigliani’s Portrait of a Girl was X-rayed at Tate Modern and the hidden portrait was found. Anthony Bourached and George Cann have trained an algorithm to simulate what it might have looked like. A physical rendering of their work will show at London’s Lebenson Gallery. (Smithsonian)

A note from a Paris archive stating “Stettiner family. Stolen. Sought in America” refutes the claim by David Nahmad, the current owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane, that it is not the same painting that Oscar Stettiner was forced to leave behind when fleeing the Nazi invasion of Paris.

A major art market event at the end of the year, the dispersal of masterpieces from the renowned Triton Foundation Collection offers major examples of Impressionist, Modern and Pre-War art.

Thanks to AI, researchers have been able to reproduce the face hidden under the Portrait of a Girl from the Tate Modern collection to the exact detail. It is a portrait of poet Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943), Modigliani’s muse. The portrait can be seen at the Lebenson Gallery in London and on the website.

Women are in the limelight at this modern art sale, where a carved wood staue by Alexander Calder echoes a self-portrait by Jeanne Hébuterne.