This exhibition of work by Amadeo Modigliani (1884–1920) aimed to throw his far-reaching primitivist sympathies into focus by casting them through the lens of his Jewish identity.
Down and out in turn-of-the-century Paris, painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani played the bohemian to the hilt, living on next to nothing, socializing with the likes of Picasso and Jean Cocteau. He…