Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

==Critical reactions==
In 2011, [[Peter Schjeldahl]], reviewing [[Meryle Secrest]]'s book ''Modigliani: A Life'', wrote:

<blockquote>I recall my thrilled first exposure, as a teenager, to one of his long-necked women, with their piquantly tipped heads and mask-like faces. The rakish stylization and the succulent color were easy to enjoy, and the payoff was sanguinely erotic in a way that endorsed my personal wishes to be bold and tender and noble, overcoming the wimp that I was. In that moment, I used up Modigliani's value for my life. But in museums ever since I have been happy to salute his pictures with residually grateful, quick looks.<ref name=PSrev>Peter Schjeldahl (7 March 2011).  [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/07/long-faces "Long Faces"]. ''[[The New Yorker]]''. Book review of Meryle Secrest's ''Modigliani: A Life''.</ref></blockquote>

Schjeldahl reports Secrest's speculation that Modigliani was happy to let people consider him an alcoholic and drug addict, "and thus to mistake the symptoms of his [[tuberculosis]], which he kept a secret. Drunks were tolerated; carriers of infectious diseases were not."<ref name=PSrev/>