The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. Consisting of a series of vignettes, mostly set in the painter's studio and peopled by his lover Jeanne Hébuterne (who ended her own life the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of Modigliani's life, evoking the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, ultimately succeeding in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.
"Humour, wisdom, narrative power... [Colic] leads us up the garden path. For our own pleasure." - Martine Lavale, Télérama
"This account of the tragic life of Amedeo Modigliani enables you to enter his Montparnasse studio, smell the colours of his paint and empathically share the poetic space of a beautiful and damned soul from the Tyrrhenian shores." - Bianca Sforni; Photographer, Paris
The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. Consisting of a series of vignettes, mostly set in the painter's studio and peopled by his lover Jeanne Hébuterne (who ended her own life the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of Modigliani's life, evoking the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, ultimately succeeding in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Praise
"Humour, wisdom, narrative power... [Colic] leads us up the garden path. For our own pleasure." - Martine Lavale, Télérama
"This account of the tragic life of Amedeo Modigliani enables you to enter his Montparnasse studio, smell the colours of his paint and empathically share the poetic space of a beautiful and damned soul from the Tyrrhenian shores." - Bianca Sforni; Photographer, Paris
