Modigliani

Artist: Amadeo Modigliani 
Author: John Russell (intro.) 
Publisher: Arts Council 
Date: 1963 
Condition: Very good, a little tanning to the edges consistent with age and some very minor handling marks to the covers, but clean and bright inside. Illustrated throughout in black and white with the occasional colour plate.

Published to accompany the major 1963 Tate Gallery exhibition, this catalogue at first seems rather far away from what we would now expect for an artist of Modigliani's reputation. Why, they don't even put a painting on the cover!

However, once you delve inside, the quality of the selection is clear, with some of his very best work brought together. 

As a little aside, John Russell, who wrote the introduction and catalogue and was the prime mover behind the exhibition, was captured at work by the camera of Lord Snowdon - if we look in the super period book Private View, we see Russell during the set-up for the show, carting a Modigliani nude across the room.