Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne

Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne

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Antoine: 1920 and he’s 35 and she’s 22.

Juliette: When they married?

Antoine: When they died.

Juliette: Together?

Antoine: Not quite. Full of drugs and other substances, he dies of tubercular meningitis, and she throws herself out a window two days later, killing herself and her unborn child.

Juliette: Distraught?

Antoine: You could say that.

Juliette: And his work?

Antoine: Time will tell. His pictures catch your attention but there is a similarity between them all. The oval faces, the almond eyes, the pursed lips. Even his few landscapes look like the bodies he drew. That tree curves like a torso.

Juliette: Or like Jeanne's finger. Artists are crazy.

Antoine: Some, maybe, but not all. Beatrix Potter?

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