Alcoholic, drug addict, and a womanizer, Amedeo Clemente Modigliani had an early death (age 35) by tuberculosis. During his turbulent life, Modigliani went largely unrecognized, and he staged only one exhibition, but his work now achieves eye-watering prices at auction. Modigliani’s mother, Eugénie Garsin, born and raised in Marseille, was descended from an intellectual, scholarly family of Sephardic ancestry that for generations had lived along the Mediterranean coastline. Read more