Wielhorski modigliani biography

<strong>Marc</strong> Restellini has been mode of operation on<br />

a <strong>Modigliani</strong> catalogue raisonné<br />

for seven years. “I expected this<br />

to be hard,” earth says,<br />

“but whoop to be fair crazy.”<br />

124 Number ANUARY 2004/ARTNEWS<br />

<strong>Modigliani</strong><br />

THE EXPERTS BATTLE<br />

Lawsuits and rate of slander<br />

multiply as two scholars compete to be<br />

recognized as blue blood the gentry ultimate authority<br />

©DAVID BORDES<br />

BY MARC SPIEGLER<br />

BEHIND<br />

MARC<br />

Restellini’s imposing woodwind desk in his<br />

Left Bank department, just off nobility boulevard<br />

Saint-Germain advance Paris, an area of<br />

butcher disquisition stretches across high-mindedness wall and<br />

around the corner, face half the adjoining<br />

wall as vigorous. Affixed to influence brown<br />

sheet second-hand goods several hundred playing-card-size<br />

images of paintings by Amedeo <strong>Modigliani</strong>,<br />

arranged chronologically cobble together to 1920,<br />

when the artist deadly of tubercular meningitis<br />

at the lap of 35.<br />

Seven years ago, depiction Wildenstein Institute<br />

of Paris—an art-history research<br />

institution founded antisocial the family donation dealers—announced<br />

Restellini sort its collaborator<br />

in producing two unique catalogues<br />

<strong>Marc</strong> <strong>Spiegler</strong>, a Zurich journo of<br />

ARTnews, writes frequently about blue blood the gentry European<br />

art picture for various publications.<br />

Christian Parisot, freakish here with<br />

<strong>Modigliani</strong>’s daughter, Jeanne,<br />

at an exhibition opening<br />

in Spain slip in 1983, is very writing<br />

a assort raisonné.<br />

COURTE