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The Modigliani Initiative

January 24, 2023

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Happy New Year!

Girl in a Green Blouse, 1917, Oil on canvas,
32 x 18 1/8 in. (81.3 x 46 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chester Dale Collection (1963.10.45)

With the start of the new year, The Modigliani Initiative is delighted to present our first guest author to Spotlight. Dr. David Challis is a postdoctoral researcher in the Art History program at the University of Melbourne who studies the global economic factors that affected the modern art market. Modigliani on the Move takes a closer look at how and why Modigliani’s paintings were sold by French collectors in great numbers during the interwar years. Discover his essay here.

Art market scholars should know that Challis created the Archival Currency Converter 1916–1940, an extremely useful tool for comparing values in different currencies during this period.

Modigliani Up Close: Symposium

Saturday, January 28|
10:30am – 5:30pm

To mark the closing of Modigliani Up Close, the Barnes will host a day-long symposium featuring the museum experts who contributed to the exhibition. The topics they will address concerning Modigliani’s oeuvre are:
- Early Paris Paintings
- Sculpture
- Nudes
- Time in the South of France
- Last Works

Modigliani in the News

Journalist Serena Altschul visited the exhibition and interviewed Barnes conservator Barbara Buckley and curator Cindy Kang. Access the segment on CBS Sunday Morning here.

Recent Publication on
Kiki de Montparnasse

Cultural historian Mark Braude has published a book about Kiki de Montparnasse, the artist’s muse, who arrived in Paris in 1912 and first posed for Brancusi when she was just 16. She began haunting the Café de la Rotonde and met the circle of artists that included Modigliani.

Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris is published by W.W. Norton & Company (2022). Here is a link.

Please help us spread the word about The Modigliani Initiative. We are grateful for your support and extend our best wishes for the new year.

Leslie Koot
Julia May Boddewyn

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