Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

== Montparnasse, Paris ==
[[File:Salon d'Automne 1912, Paris, works exhibited by Kupka, Modigliani, Csaky, Picabia, Metzinger, Le Fauconnier.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Four sculptures by Modigliani exhibited at the 1912 [[Salon d'Automne]] along with [[Cubism|the Cubists]]]]

===Sculpture===
[[File:Modis2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|''Female Head'', 1911/1912, [[Tate]]]]
In 1909, Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle. But soon he was back in Paris, this time renting a [[studio]] in [[Montparnasse]]. He originally saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, and was encouraged to continue after [[Paul Guillaume]], an ambitious young art dealer, took an interest in his work and introduced him to sculptor [[Constantin Brâncuși]]. He was Constantin Brâncuși's disciple for one year.

Although a series of Modigliani's sculptures were exhibited in the [[Salon d'Automne]] of 1912, by 1914 he abandoned sculpting and focused solely on his painting, a move precipitated by the difficulty in acquiring sculptural materials due to the [[World War I|outbreak of war]], and by Modigliani's physical debilitation.<ref name="Beyond the Myth" />

In June 2010 Modigliani's ''[[Tête (sculpture)|Tête]]'', a limestone carving of a woman's head, became the [[List of most expensive sculptures|third most expensive sculpture ever sold]].

===Friends and influences===
Modigliani painted a series of portraits of contemporary artists and friends in Montparnasse: [[Chaïm Soutine]], [[Moïse Kisling]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Diego Rivera]], [[Marie Vorobieff|Marie "Marevna" Vorobyev-Stebeslka]], [[Juan Gris]], [[Max Jacob]], [[Jacques Lipchitz]], [[Blaise Cendrars]], and [[Jean Cocteau]], all sat for stylized renditions. Modigliani painted Soutine's portrait several times, when they lived together in the Cité Falguière around 1916.