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. A few months later, on January 24, 1920, the impoverished artist died of tubercular meningitis at age 35. The most famous paintings of Modigliani are the portraits of characters with empty gazes that are not empty. Those eyes acquire the quality of “eternal" the door to the soul through which the artist starts to paint and create with little detail and a lot of mystery. From the Hollywoodesque interpretation that Modigliani would not paint the lover's eyes because they were too beautiful and too intimate “I will paint your eyes when I find your soul” to the more realistic explanation that he was profoundly influenced by African sculpture thus the elongated and simplified faces he tends to create
 
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