The work of early 20th century
Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani goes on exhibit at the Turin
Modern Art Gallery (GAM) from March 14 to July 12 in a show
titled Modigliani and the Boheme of Paris.
Of the 90 works to be exhibited, 70 are on loan the
National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The show's curator, art historian Jean-Michel Bouhours, is
thought to be one of the foremost experts on Modigliani, and is
currently the curator of the modern collections at the Centre
Pompidou.
In his work, Modigliani pays tribute to the life of Paris
in the early 1900s, the so-called "boheme" or bohemian lifestyle
of the avant-garde artists who made up the School of Paris art
movement that he belonged to, which included luminaries such as
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall.
The show will include works from Chagall as well as fellow
School of Paris artists Costantin Brancusi, Chaim Soutine, and
Maurice Utrillo.
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