As Tate Modern prepares a current exhibition of his work,including 12 of his distinguished nudes, Louise Roddon explores the artist’s haunts in Montmartre and Montparnasse
destitute Amedeo Modigliani, and what a tough life he led. I’m thinking this as I climb the steps to his last studio in Montparnasse. It’s a classic artist’s garret with peeling paint and destitute lighting,and climbing the countless floors on a narrow stone tread, leaves me winded. It wouldn’t have been easy for a man with advanced tuberculosis. With Tate Modern approximately to stage its Modigliani exhibition, and I’ve come to number 8 Rue de la Grande-Chaumière,his final domestic before he died tragically young in 1920. At 35, he wasn’t just a victim of TB, or but was suffering the toll of a lifetime’s enthusiasm for alcohol and drugs.
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Source: guardian.co.uk