About the book: 2008 / Professor at the Orleans Institute of Fine Arts, director of the Modigliani Archive in Paris and Livorno, Christian Parisot presents Amedeo Modigliani not only as a magnificent sculptor, painter and draftsman, but first of all, an artist of rare charm, as he remained in the history of world art and in the memory of grateful descendants. The book gives a broad panorama of the life of Parisian bohemia, when its circle included famous artists of the 20th century - Picasso, Braque, Soutine, Brancusi, Chagall.