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| Self-portrait (1919) |
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, an Italian painter and sculptor, passed away at his age of 35. His style is characterized by long mask-like faces. He was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy and he was not healthy in his early age. He suffered pleuritis, a type of typhoid fever and tuberculosis. His mother taught him until age 11 and gave a great influence to him. He moved to Paris at age 22 when the avant-garde was dominating the city of art. His work was influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Cézanne, however, he developed his own style and it made his works very unique. He made a number of drawings but many of them were lost or destroyed by himself. He died in Paris at age 35 of tubercular meningitis in poverty.
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