Jeanne Modigliani (29 November 1918 – 27 July 1984)[1] was the biographer of her father, artist Amedeo Modigliani, writing the 1958 book Modigliani, man and myth, later translated into English from the Italian by Esther Rowland Clifford.[2]
Her father, Amedeo Modigliani, was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
Her mother, Jeanne Hébuterne, was a French artist, best known as the frequent subject and common-law wife of the artist Modigliani.
After her father's death and her mother's suicide a day later, she stayed with her grandparents until a later date when her aunt, Florence Modigliani, took her in and raised her.