In the exhibition at the Eclektica Art Meinung gallery in via Mazzini 70, works by Jeanne Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne.
The retrospective in the gallery "Eclektica Art Meinung" of Pisa aims to give Jeanne Modigliani the recognition she deserves as an artist. His pictorial style, very much linked to emotions and moods, is close to abstract expressionism. You can see in his works a chromatic vivacity that almost counteracts the artist’s existential path, not always happy and serene, or on the contrary a composure that infuses calm and serenity to those who observe.
5 October - 5 December
Tuesday - Friday: 15:30 - 19:30
Saturday, Sunday and Monday by appointment only by writing to eamgallery@gmail.com
FREE ENTRANCE
Jeanne Modigliani, daughter of Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani, was born in Nice in 1918. Orphaned by both parents at the tender age of two, she was entrusted to her paternal grandmother Eugènie Garsin and her aunt Margherita Modigliani, who adopted her, and lived between Livorno, Florence and Paris.
He graduated in art history in Florence with a research thesis on Vincent Van Gogh. Jewish and grandson of a socialist, during the Second World War she moved to Paris to escape fascist persecution, and after the Nazi occupation joined the French resistance. She became an appreciated essayist and art historian, as well as the main biographer of her father, for much of her life she dedicated herself to restoring dignity to both her paternal and maternal work. In 1981, in Paris, he set up the most complete exhibition ever held on Modigliani, with over two hundred and fifty works, an initiative that was a great success. In 1983 he founded, between Paris and Livorno, the Modigliani Legal Archives, where he collected photos, letters, testimonies of all kinds documenting the painter’s brief and intense life . Died in Paris in 1984.
Jeanne Hébuterne was born in Meaux, Île-de-France, in 1898 to a family of the good French bourgeoisie. Favorite muse, model and companion of Amedeo Modigliani, artist herself, after just two days from the death of the painter Livorno for a tubercular meningitis took her life by throwing himself from a window of the house of parents. She was only twenty-one years old and was pregnant with her second child, after giving birth less than two years earlier to a girl who would bear her own name, Jeanne. These excellent deaths caused a great stir in the Parisian art world and made it to the forefront of the chronicles of the time. Today, Jeanne and Amedeo rest next to each other in the monumental French cemetery of Père-Lachaise. Jeanne Hébuterne’s drawings in 1919, made in the studio of Amedeo Modigliani.
