Modigliani. A painter and his dealer

When he arrived in Paris in 1906, Modigliani, a Jewish artist of Italian origin, was a painter. His meeting in 1909 with Constantin Brancusi, a sculptor of Romanian origin, acted as a revelation: he took up sculpture, to which he devoted himself almost exclusively until 1914. His break with this discipline was as sudden as it was total: from 1914 to his death in 1920, he returned to painting and produced numerous paintings devoted mainly to solitary human figures. The discipline of painting was central to the relationship between the artist and his dealer. Paul Guillaume encouraged him, rented him a studio in Montmartre, and made his paintings known in Parisian literary and artistic circles. He bought, sold and collected the artist's works.
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