Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. He was an alcoholic painter fixated on women and incapable of ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the ...

Amadeo Modigliani was the model bohemian artist: handsome, promiscuous, addicted to drugs and alcohol and women, and dead at the age of 35 of tuberculosis. The day after, Jeanne Hebuterne, his 21-year ...

Late in 1919, in a squalid Paris studio strewn with wine bottles, Amedeo Modigliani painted a wistful portrait of his 21-year-old lover, Jeanne Hébuterne. Afew months later, on January 24, 1920, the ...