During Modigliani’s short and difficult life, the going rate for his elegant, oddly distorted paintings was less than $10, and takers were few. Alandlord who confiscated some of his work in lieu of ...

In 2018 an oil painting of a nude by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani broke a world record when it sold at Sotheby’s for US$157.2 million (£115.2m). It was created in 1917, at a time when ...

After almost 30 years, several legal battles and a few death threats, Marc Restellini’s catalogue raisonné of Amedeo ...

The work, too, follows a startlingly linear trajectory, suggesting a man with a rare sense of purpose that, one supposes, would have dwindled had the fug of intoxication been anything like permanent.

Modigliani's work gained significant acclaim posthumously, and he is now regarded as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His art is featured in major collections worldwide, ...

While Sotheby's was busy preparing to bring record-setting work by Frida Kahlo and Gustav Klimt to the block this week during its New York sales, the auction house faced a lawsuit from a collector who ...

Nu Couche (Sur Le Cote Gauche) is said by Sotheby’s to be the greatest painting from the artist’s series of once-controversial nudes. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed ...

A judge ruled against a holding company controlled by David Nahmad, the billionaire art dealer, which had bought the work at ...

Johnny Depp’s new film Modi: Three Days on the Wings of Madness explores the artist’s struggle to sell his work, and the tension that existed between his own idealism and the need to be commercially ...