Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

==War years==
[[File:Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon.jpg|thumb|left|Modigliani, [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[André Salmon]], 1916]]

At the outset of [[World War I]], Modigliani tried to enlist in the army but was refused because of his poor health.<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=080219740X Dan Franck, ''Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art''], Open Road, Grove/Atlantic, 2007, {{ISBN|080219740X}}</ref>

Known as ''Modì'' (which plays on the French word 'maudit', meaning 'cursed') by many Parisians, but as ''Dedo'' to his family and friends, Modigliani was a handsome man, and attracted much female attention.<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=8809042077 Fiorella Nicosia, Amedeo Modigliani, ''Modigliani''], Taylor & Francis, 2005, pp. 38, 74, {{ISBN|8809042077}}</ref> Women came and went until [[Beatrice Hastings]] entered his life. She stayed with him for almost two years, was the subject of several of his portraits, including ''Madame Pompadour'', and the object of much of his drunken wrath.<ref name="Modigliani" />

When the British painter [[Nina Hamnett]] arrived in Montparnasse in 1914, on her first evening there the smiling man at the next table in the café introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew".{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} They became great friends.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In 1916, Modigliani befriended the [[Poland|Polish]] poet and art dealer [[Léopold Zborowski]] and his wife Anna.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/401219-0 |title=Amedeo Modigliani |author=<!--Not stated-->|date=2010|website=The Israel Museum|location=Jerusalem|publisher=Harry N. Abrams, Inc.|access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref> Zborowski became Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, helping him financially, and also organizing his show in Paris in 1917.<ref>{{Cite web |last=hoakley |date=May 13, 2020 |title=The short lives of Modigliani and his dealers |url=https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/13/the-short-lives-of-modigliani-and-his-dealers/ |access-date=June 23, 2024 |website=The Eclectic Light Company}}</ref>