Modigliani and his Times _ 406.407 visitors

5 February to 18 May 2008

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The exhibition Modigliani and his Times brought together a total of 126 works with the aim of analysing the career of one of the great figures of 20th-century art: Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), from the time of his arrival in Paris in 1906 up to his death. The principal innovation in this ambitious project was the fact that for the first time it  presented Modigliani’s work in a direct dialogue with that of the great masters of the past who influenced him -Cézanne, Picasso and Brancusi- and with that of his friends in Montparnasse, including Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaïm Soutine, Moïse Kisling, Ossip Zadkine, Tsugouharu Foujita and Jules Pascin.

The exhibition was structured into two principal sections analysing the relationship between Modigliani and his masters, shown in the rooms of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, and between the artist and his friends, on display in the exhibition space of Fundación Caja Madrid. It was also organised chronologically, as follows:

MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA

• The major Retrospectives
• Studying Sculpture
• Portraits I
• Nudes I

FUNDACIÓN CAJA MADRID

• Portraits II
• Nudes II
• Landscapes
• Drawings
• Documentary Photographs