Amedeo Modigliani is one of the world’s most expensive—and most forged—artists. As a result, a cottage industry has sprung up among fiercely competitive experts who offer opinions about the ...

X-ray studies have revealed that underneath Amedeo Modigliani’s masterpiece Portrait of a Girl hides another portrait of yet another girl. It has been concealed in plain sight for over a century. The ...

Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inna Berkowits, an art historian at Haifa University's Hecht Museum in Israel, points at Amadeo Modigliani's portrait painting ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the ...

A judge ruled against a holding company controlled by David Nahmad, the billionaire art dealer, which had bought the work at auction in 1996. By Graham Bowley The movie, directed by Johnny Depp, ...

Jean Cocteau had his portrait painted by Modigliani in 1916, and later wrote: “It does not look like me, but it does look like Modigliani, which is better.” There is no mistaking his meaning: ...

A nearly 100-year-old painting of an alluring nude created by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4 million on Monday night — the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a work of ...