Jeanne & Modigliani: Paris in the dark

Achieving little recognition in his own lifetime, Amedeo Modigliani went on to become a highly influential expressionist artist after his untimely death in 1920. Jeanne Hebuterne was his last companion, his ever-faithful supporter.

Although a talented artist in her own right, Jeanne is pulled into the abyss of Modigliani’s destructive ego, to tragic ends. …

Jeanne Hebuterne… she who quietly slipped through her 19 years in the background of the scene, as if to apologize for being there. This is her story…