Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

=== Arrival ===
[[File:Juan Gris (1887–1927) MET DT2533.jpg|thumb|upright|''Portrait of [[Juan Gris]]'', 1915]]

In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the [[avant-garde]]. In fact, his arrival at the centre of artistic experimentation coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: [[Gino Severini]] and [[Juan Gris]].

He later befriended [[Jacob Epstein]], with whom he aimed to set up a studio or Temple of Beauty to be enjoyed by all. Modigliani himself intended to create the drawings and paintings of the stone caryatids for 'The Pillars of Tenderness' which would support the imagined temple.<ref>{{cite web|title=Modigliani Caryatid Drawings|url=http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/shop/modigiliani-and-epstein|work=The New Art Gallery Walsall Catalogue|publisher=[[The New Art Gallery Walsall]]|access-date=16 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707074343/http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/shop/modigiliani-and-epstein|archive-date=7 July 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Le Bateau-Lavoir, circa 1910.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Le Bateau-Lavoir]] in 1910]]
Modigliani [[Squatting|squat]]ted in the [[Bateau-Lavoir]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Modigliani Caryatid Drawings|url=http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/shop/modigiliani-and-epstein|publisher=[[The New Art Gallery Walsall]]|access-date=16 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707074343/http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/shop/modigiliani-and-epstein|archive-date=7 July 2013}}</ref> a [[Intentional community|commune]] for penniless artists in [[Montmartre]], renting himself a studio in Rue Caulaincourt. Even though this artists' quarter of Montmartre was characterized by generalized poverty, Modigliani himself presented—initially, at least—as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions. He soon made efforts to assume the guise of the bohemian artist, but, even in his brown corduroys, scarlet scarf and large black hat, he continued to appear as if he were slumming it, having fallen upon harder times.<ref name="Werner 1967 17" />

When he first arrived in Paris, he wrote home regularly to his mother, sketched his nudes at the [[Académie Colarossi]], and drank wine in moderation. At that time, he was considered, by those who knew him, to be a bit reserved, verging on the asocial,<ref name="Werner 1967 17" /> and is noted to have commented, upon meeting [[Picasso]], who at the time was wearing his trademark workmen's clothes, that even though the man was a genius, that did not excuse his uncouth appearance.<ref name="Werner 1967 17" />