Amedeo Modigliani in his studio…
A credo: “Hold sacred all which can exalt and excite your intelligence and seek to provoke … and to perpetuate … these fertile stimuli, because they can push the intelligence to its maximum creative power.”
Modigliani lies in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Next to him lies his passionate beloved Jeanne Hébuterne who two days after Modigliani’s death from tubercular meningitis (exacerbated by alcoholism) through herself out a window, killing herself and her unborn baby (she was nine months pregnant with their second child). His epitaph reads: “Struck down by Death at the moment of glory.” Hers reads: “Devoted companion to the extreme sacrifice.”
