吻仔魚的天空

Modi那複雜多變的性格讓Beatrice著迷也讓她痛苦，爭吵與衝突始終伴隨著這段感情，1916年，受夠了的Beatrice離他而去，在這以後Modi不再有固定的女伴和情人，也不再有固定的模特，他為大量熟人朋友作畫，也有一些不相干的女人隨機的出現在了畫布上，這種狀態一直持續到1917年，在巴黎涼爽的初夏裏，他遇見了Jeanne Hébuterne，後者出生於一個正統的法國中產階級天主教家庭，那一年才剛滿19歲。
大量以Jeanne為主角的畫作誕生了，畫布上的她有天使般端莊的相貌，藍綠色眼睛，紅褐色頭髮，眼波中永遠飽含著溫柔甚至敬畏，以及那後來為評論界所稱道的波提利切式的神情。這是與Beatrice全然不同的神情，在與Modi的感情中，Jeanne始終是臣服的，依賴的，Beatrice愛得太清醒，所以痛苦，所以掙扎，所以計較；Jeanne的愛是沉淪的，從一開始已然城池盡失一敗塗地，所以毫無保留心甘情願，她把Modi視作全部的世界，那麼她是否想過，倘若有天Modi不在了呢，也許世界對她也就沒了任何意義。

Modi這一時期的畫，是日後評價最高，也最為值錢的^_^。他除了像那個時代大多畫家一樣受印象派、立體派、野獸派的影響，也從早年的哥特藝術中汲取養分，還對非洲木雕有興趣，那拉長了的臉、鼻子、棱角清晰的線條、以及沒有瞳孔的空空眼睛都是明證。

雖然始終沒有結婚，Jeanne卻成了Modi長期的伴侶，她甚至為他生了一個女兒，這也是Modi畢生唯一承認的子嗣——真正拒絕承認的是Jeanne的家族，打一開始起，他們拒絕與Modigliani這個姓氏或那個猶太裔窮小子有任何瓜葛，日後，他們也確實那樣做了。

毒藥般的Modigliani，魅惑著女人，燃燒著藝術，也蠶食著自己，他死在1920年初，結核性腦膜炎，只得36歲，沒有人在他身旁。他的畫才剛剛有了些微樂觀的銷量，他的收入才剛剛逐步穩定起來，他死了。兩天后，Jeanne自高樓上飛身墜下而亡，其時她懷孕九個月。他們留在世上一名不滿2歲的女兒，Jeanne的家族拒絕了撫養權。而前面提到過的那位Beatrice Hastings則死於1943年，同樣是自殺。再後來又是幾十年過去，當人們在因同情或故作的知音而賞識、熱愛、推崇梵古時，他們卻因Modigliani的酒精、毒品、以及情聖身份對他好惡參半。

http://clavichord.blogspot.com/2006/06/histoire-de-sa-vie.html

Jeanne Hébuterne (April 6, 1898 – January 25, 1920) was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani.

Born in Paris to a Roman Catholic family, her father, Achille Hébuterne, worked at Le Bon Marché department store. A beautiful girl, she was introduced to the artistic community in Montparnasse by her brother André Hébuterne who wanted to become a painter. She met several of the then starving artists and modeled for Tsuguharu Foujita. However, wanting to pursue a career in the arts, and with a talent for drawing, she chose to study at the Académie Colarossi. It was there in the spring of 1917 that Jeanne Hébuterne was introduced to Amedeo Modigliani by the sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968) who came with many other artists to take advantage of the Academy's live models. Jeanne soon began an affair with the charismatic artist, and the two fell deeply in love. She soon moved in with him, despite strong objection from her deeply Catholic parents.

Hébuterne by Modigliani

Described by the writer Charles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954) as gentle, shy, quiet, and delicate, Jeanne Hébuterne became a principal subject for Modigliani’s art. In the fall of 1918, the couple moved to the warmer climate of Nice on the French Riviera where Modigliani’s agent hoped he might raise his profile by selling some of his works to the wealthy art connoisseurs who wintered there. While in Nice, a daughter was born on November 29th. The following spring, they returned to Paris and Jeanne became pregnant again. By this time, Modigliani was suffering from tuberculous meningitis and his health, made worse by complications brought on by substance abuse, was deteriorating badly.

On January 24, 1920 Amedeo Modigliani died. Jeanne Hébuterne's family brought her to their home but the totally distraught girl threw herself out of the fifth-floor apartment window two days after Modigliani's death, killing herself and her unborn child. Her family, who blamed her demise on Modigliani, interred her in the Cimetière de Bagneux. Nearly ten years later, the Hébuterne family finally relented and allowed her remains to be transferred to Père Lachaise Cemetery to rest beside Modigliani.

Their orphaned daughter, Jeanne Modigliani (1918-1984), was adopted by her father's sister in Florence, Italy. She grew up knowing virtually nothing of her parents and as an adult began researching their lives. In 1958, she wrote a biography of her father that was published in the English language in the United States as Modigliani: Man and Myth.

It took more than thirty years before an art scholar convinced the Hébuterne heirs to allow public access to Jeanne Hébuterne's artwork. In October of 2000, her works were featured at a major Modigliani exhibition in Venice, Italy by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

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