Artist: Amadeo ModiglianiAuthor: Raffaello Franchi Publisher: Arnaud Editore, FlorenceDate: 1946 Condition: From the second edition, with the original unclipped dust wrapper over the blue paper boards and linen spine; the wrapper complete if a little fragile, with some chips and nicks to the edges and wear along the spine edges, some shelf wear front and back. Internally, there is some tanning to the edges, especially of the text pages, but overall it is complete and considering the age and publication date, quite a readable copy. Illustrated throughout in black and white with some tipped in colour plates. Text in Italian Although only 35 when he died in 1920, several publications on his work had already appeared by the beginning of WWII. This book, which was amazingly first published in 1944 while the war was still going on, went through at least four editions and is one of the major early accounts of the artist and his life and offers valuable information, especially considering the arguments over authenticity of some of Modigliani's oeuvre. There is an extensive and useful bibliography of early literature on the artist.
