Amedeo Modigliani: Beatrice (Portrait de Béatrice Hastings), Amedeo Modigliani, 1916, Oil on canvas with newsprint, A British poet and journalist, Beatrice Hastings moved to Paris in 1914, where she quickly became absorbed into the thriving avant-garde scene in Montparnasse. Hastings met Modigliani at the café de la Rotunde, a popular gathering place for the bohemian crowd, and the pair began a stormy two-year relationship; both were creative, defiant, and prone to theatricality. Hastings posed for Modigliani at least fourteen times. In this portrait, Modigliani experiments with the language o

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