Amedeo Modigliani의 생애 속 이 작품
생애 전체 보기spring 1910 – August 1911
The affair with Anna Akhmatova
In the spring of 1910 Modigliani meets the young Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, five years his junior; their passionate infatuation lasts until August 1911, after which they never meet again. Akhmatova takes 16 portraits of herself back to Russia.
1911
The “Pillars of Tenderness” and the plan for a “Temple of Beauty”
In 1911 Modigliani exhibits stone sculpted heads, his “pillars of tenderness”, in the studio of the Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. It is then that he conceives the idea of a “Temple of Beauty”, for which he develops the caryatid motif.
1912
Sculpted heads at the Salon d’Automne
In 1912 Modigliani shows seven sculpted heads at the Salon d’Automne, and some of them are even bought. There he meets the sculptors Jacob Epstein and Jacques Lipchitz.
by 1914
Gives up sculpture for painting
By 1914 Modigliani abandons sculpting and focuses solely on painting, a move precipitated by the difficulty of acquiring sculptural materials once the war breaks out, and by his physical debilitation.
1914
Paul Guillaume replaces Paul Alexandre
Paul Alexandre, called up into the army, terminates his contract with the artist, and Modigliani’s new patron becomes the gallery owner and collector Paul Guillaume, who exhibits his work in his gallery.
1914
Beatrice Hastings
Modigliani meets the talented and eccentric Englishwoman Beatrice Hastings, a poet and columnist for The New Age, who becomes his companion, muse and favourite model: he devotes 14 portraits to her. The relationship lasts about two years.
