Jeanne Hebuterne by Amedeo Modigliani - 1919 - 55 x 38 cm private collection Jeanne Hebuterne by Amedeo Modigliani - 1919 - 55 x 38 cm private collection

Jeanne Hebuterne

oil on canvas • 55 x 38 cm
  • Amedeo Modigliani - 12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920 Amedeo Modigliani 1919

Jeanne Hébuterne was a principal subject for Modigliani's art and was his common-law wife. Tragedy interrupted their happy life–Modigliani was suffering from tuberculosis which caused his death in 1920. The day after, Jeanne threw herself out of the fifth-floor apartment window, killing herself and her unborn child.