Per an ancient law that protected the beds of pregnant women and mothers with newborn children, Modigliani’s father averted his creditors from pursuing payment by piling his family’s most ...

Amedeo Modigliani was born in the Tuscan seaport of Livorno on July 12, 1884. He was a dreamy, precocious mama’s boy, the youngest of four children, in a family of cultivated, left-leaning ...

A painting of a nude women in repose by artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170,405,000 ... X’ers swore they’d stay together for their kids because their own parents didn’t—then the news ...

One obvious trophy stood out, and bidders went after it with a passion: Modigliani’s portrait of a woman in the nude seated on a sofa and quizzically leering at the viewer with pursed lips.

There is a hierarchy in the Modigliani field in terms of which works are most coveted by collectors and museums alike: first, it’s the nudes, followed by portraits of women, children ...

A once-controversial nude by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani has become the one of the most expensive artworks ever to sell at auction. The 1917 painting “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche ...