His life was the stuff of Hollywood. His art is the stuff of dreams. Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian painter and sculptor, created groundbreaking works that rivaled or even surpassed those of Pablo ...

Italian authorities say a network of European art forgers who painted fake Warhols, Banksys and Picassos and then tried to sell them to unsuspecting buyers with the help of complicit auction houses ...

Italian Jewish painter Amedeo Modigliani was 35 years old when he died in 1920 due to complications of tuberculosis, drug abuse, chronic alcoholism, and neglect. Actor Andy Garcia is 50, and his movie ...

Matthias Balk / AFP via Getty Images German police say they’ve broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for ...

Modigliani was also friendly with Picasso, though not part of his inner circle. Picasso, who affected a workingman’s look with his patched clothes and fisherman’s sweaters, seems to have admired ...

Amedeo Modigliani — his first name means “beloved of God” — became known soon after his death as le maudit — the cursed one. An Italian painter who lived in Paris just before and after World War I, ...