Rome to receive Modigliani trove
About 6,000 documents from the estate of artist Amedeo Modigliani will be moved permanently from France to Italy, archive officials said Wednesday.
Most of the documents -- believed to be the only ones existing related to the 20th century artist -- have been stored mostly at the Paris Montparnasse museum. A few are in other institutions in France.
Now, Christian Parisot, the director of the Modigliani Institut Archives Legales and a longtime Modigliani expert, has decided in consultation with the artist’s granddaughter that the materials should be brought to Rome.
“It isn’t about stealing one thing from France to place it in Rome, but it’s about finding the right place to give visibility to these documents,” Parisot said.
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