{"id":147888,"date":"2024-12-02T07:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/2024\/12\/02\/modigliani-and-zadkine-a-story-of-friendship-at-the-musee-zadkine\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:58:34","slug":"modigliani-and-zadkine-a-story-of-friendship-at-the-musee-zadkine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/en\/2024\/12\/02\/modigliani-and-zadkine-a-story-of-friendship-at-the-musee-zadkine\/","title":{"rendered":"Modigliani and Zadkine: a story of friendship at the Mus\u00e9e Zadkine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The exhibition dedicated to Amedeo Modigliani and Ossip Zadkine explores the friendship between these two major figures of the Parisian avant-garde.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n

Through 90 works – paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and period documents – the event retraces their cross-cultural paths in the heart of Montparnasse, between 1910 and 1920.<\/p>\n\n

Artistic beginnings in sculpture<\/h2>\n\n

Modigliani and Zadkine met in 1913, sharing a fascination for sculpture and a common desire to break with academic codes. Modigliani, influenced by Brancusi, explored pure forms and references to ancient Egypt and African art. Zadkine, for his part, drew on these influences to develop his own style. Their works from this period, presented side by side, reveal striking similarities, notably in their search for ideal faces and sculptural forms. <\/p>\n\n

The First World War turned their careers upside down. Modigliani, discharged from the army, gave up sculpture for painting, under the advice of art dealers. Zadkine, enlisted as a stretcher-bearer, endured the horrors of the conflict before resuming his artistic activity. At the end of the war, the two artists crossed paths briefly, before their paths parted once and for all with Modigliani’s untimely death in 1920. <\/p>\n\n

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