MODIGLIANI / ZADKINE, une amitié interrompue

Following the exhibition dedicated to Chana Orloff, the Musée Zadkine continues to explore the artistic links forged by Zadkine throughout his life. This exhibition is the first to focus on an artistic friendship that has never been explored before: that between the sculptor Ossip Zadkine and the painter Amedeo Modigliani.

Through almost 90 works—paintings, drawings, sculptures, as well as period documents and photographs—we follow the paths taken by Modigliani and Zadkine, in the turbulent and fertile context of Montparnasse from 1910 to 1920. Benefiting from exceptional loans from major institutions—the Centre Pompidou, the Musée de l’Orangerie, and the museums of Milan, Rouen and Dijon—as well as from private collectors, the exhibition brings together, as in their early days, two major artists of the avant-garde, and enables us to renew the threads of an interrupted friendship.

Exhibition curation
Cécilie Champy-Vinas, Head Curator of Heritage, Director of the Musée Zadkine
Thierry Dufrêne, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Paris Nanterre
With the collaboration of Anne-Cécile Moheng, curator at the Musée Zadkine