Tragic love story - Amado Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani lived a brief, blazing life, shaping a world of elongated faces, quiet eyes, and tender human presence. His art grew out of struggle and brilliance, marked by illness, poverty, and an unyielding devotion to painting. In 1917 he met Jeanne Hébuterne, a young artist whose gentleness and pale blue eyes became the soul of his late work.

When Modigliani died in January 1920, Jeanne — eight months pregnant with their second child — was taken back to her family. Two days later, unable to bear the loss, she ended her life. Today they rest side by side, their story remembered as one of art’s most luminous and tragic love stories.

Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon, 1916.

Jeanne Hébuterne

Reclining Nude on Blue Cushion (French: Nu Couché au coussin Bleu) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani created in 1916.