Amedeo Modigliani is one of the world’s most expensive—and most forged—artists. As a result, a cottage industry has sprung up among fiercely competitive experts who offer opinions about the ...

An exhibition of work by Amedeo Modigliani in Genoa ended dramatically last month, when 21 paintings—around a third of the works in the show—were seized from the Palazzo Ducale by Italian police on ...

Contributing Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Serena Altschul is a CBS News contributing correspondent and a contributor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated ...

Born and bred in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani’s artistic oeuvre stands out for his controversial elongated and asymmetrical portraits, imbued with modernity. Best known as a painter, he was a ...

In the first room of the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit “Modigliani Unmasked,” a case displays two issues of La Libre Parole, the early-20th century French anti-Semitic newspaper founded by Édouard ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia are discovering hidden ...

Jean Cocteau had his portrait painted by Modigliani in 1916, and later wrote: “It does not look like me, but it does look like Modigliani, which is better.” There is no mistaking his meaning: ...

A nearly 100-year-old painting of an alluring nude created by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4 million on Monday night — the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a work of ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the ...

LONDON — Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani lived a life of excess. Addicted to drink, drugs and women, he died poor and young in Paris in 1920, at the age of 35 of tubercular ...

Amadeo Modigliani was the model bohemian artist: handsome, promiscuous, addicted to drugs and alcohol and women, and dead at the age of 35 of tuberculosis. The day after, Jeanne Hebuterne, his 21-year ...