Livorno pala modigliani biography

The "Modigliani's friends" of the Caffè Bardi claimed that the episode of 'the heads thrown into the Livorno canals' took place during the war (between 1915-16), and in any case not in the first artist trip in 1909 despite the fact that the photographer Bruno Miniati (1889- 1974) claimed he never saw Modigliani in Livorno after 1909.

The only document that Jeanne was able to recover from her family, was a letter dated on July 3, 1909 written by her grandmother Eugenia, the mother of the artist, to Vera Modigliani to reassure her about Dedo's health and to inform her that he came back to Livorno, and as the only work related in this first trip after Paris, the painting known as "The beggar of Livorno" dated August 1, 1909.

The document that could have shed light on the life of the artist in his two returns to Livorno, would have been the family diary, which it is not interrupted in 1910 as reported in various publications, but continues even after