Download or read book The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani written by Velibor Colic and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. Consisting of a series of vignettes, mostly set in the painter's studio and peopled by his lover Jeanne Hébuterne (who ended her own life the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of Modigliani's life, evoking the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, ultimately succeeding in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.