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Amedeo Modigliani.

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Jeanne Hebuterne.

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He was the pre-eminent portrait artist.

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She, that famous face laid down on his canvas for eternity.

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She was that silent, mysterious figure

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that the painter created, driven by his fantasies.

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Jeanne was also an artist.

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In her work, she tried to free herself

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from her masters grip.

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Amedeo and Jeanne had three years of heart-rending passion

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and intense creation.

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This is the story of two tormented souls

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united until death by love and by art.

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January 25th, 1920, 7:00 am.

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8 Rue Amyot in Paris.

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A woman\'s body is found dead on the footpath.

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Passers-by had seen her fall from the fifth floor.

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Nobody understood what had happened.

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The woman was Jeanne Hebuterne.

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How could Jeanne have died in this way?

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She was 22 years old and eight months pregnant.

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[children chattering]

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Jeanne had been a model child.

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A happy little girl, who had marveled at everything.

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Her beauty escaped no one.

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Jeanne had everything going for her.

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She grew up in a bourgeois, Catholic family.

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Her elder brother, Andre, meant the world to her.

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They both had the same passion for art.

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Ever since her early childhood,

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everyone had said that little Jeanne was gifted,

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gifted at sketching drawings of everyday life.

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Page after page, her sketchbooks

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reveal the intimate thoughts of a sensitive little girl.

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But behind the picture of a happy, loving family,

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hovered the shadow of an angry, authoritarian father.

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The young girl was drawing a world stifled

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under the weight of convention.

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I used to sit on the little steps

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at the end of the street to watch people go by.

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[people chattering]

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Paris 1914.

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Jeanne was still tied to her mother\'s apron strings

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when Modigliani turned 30.

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He had already left his native Italy ten years earlier.

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War had just been declared.

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His delicate health saved him

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from the blood and horror of the trenches,

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but it had also forced him in pain,

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to give up his first passion, sculpture.

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The dust was clogging his lungs.

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Unfit for service, he devoted his days to painting.

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He dreamt of making a name for himself

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on the Parisian art scene

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that was in full swing at the time.

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Everything inspired him.

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He was especially fascinated by primitive art.

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African masks inspired his simplification of forms.

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[children chattering]

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Modigliani was searching for a face,

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the perfect face that would combine what was most beautiful

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in the ancient and the primitive arts.

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He was looking for the truth of the soul in the human face.

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With one eye, you look at the outside world,

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with the other, you look into your own soul.

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Amedeo wandered from studio to studio

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looking for a style of his own.

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He frequented a good number of artists\' studios

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from the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre

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to La Ruche in Montparnasse.

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He led the Bohemian life,

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with neither money nor a permanent address.

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This was the precarious and unstable lifestyle

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Modigliani was looking for.

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Amedeo met painters, writers and poets.

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Down-and-outs, like himself,

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all of whom hoped one day to make their living from art.

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He painted them all.

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The Spaniard, Pablo Picasso, whose talent he was jealous of.

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The Mexican, Diego Rivera, who put him up from time to time.

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The Lithuanian, Chaim Soutine,

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with whom he hung around the bars.

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The young poet Jean Cocteau,

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the Polish painter, Moise Kisling,

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and Swiss writer, Blaise Cendrars.

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Paris was a party.

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And Amedeo wasn\'t going to miss a crumb of the feast.

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Everywhere he went, his hell-fire reputation preceded him.

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He got angry when he heard the French

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making a mess of his name.

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I am Modigliani, I am Jewish, fuck you!

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[crowd chattering]

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Modigliani was a drunk.

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He liked causing trouble,

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and was always ready to rearrange the face

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of anyone who contradicted him.

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His arrogant look and his overbearing pride

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got him into trouble.

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[breathing heavily]

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Gradually, Amedeo buried himself in opium and hashish.

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He willingly slipped into an obsessional,

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destructive inner world.

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Drugs relieved his pain.

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The fact was, Modigliani was sick.

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For as long as he could remember,

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pain had always been his reality.

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Death had been ever present and stifling.

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Typhoid, pleurisy, tuberculosis.

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As a child he was often ill.

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But little Dedo, as his mother called him, was a survivor.

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And nothing was good enough for her darling.

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[people chattering]

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She took him to Venice, Florence, Rome.

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Brief periods of respite when the young boy

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discovered the art of the Renaissance,

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works of art that were to mark his imagination forever.

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Very early on, Amedeo knew he would be an artist.

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He studied at the Beaux in Venice and Florence.

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At the age of 22, Amedeo left Italy for Paris,

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convinced that one day he would be famous.

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[people chattering and laughing]

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Paris, 1916.

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[bell rings]

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Jeanne was 17 years old.

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She too dreamed of becoming an artist.

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She was studying painting and drawing

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at the Academie Colarossi.

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With auburn hair and milk-white skin,

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her friends called her coconut.

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Though she didn\'t know it,

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her beauty fascinated the painters

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and sculptors of the times.

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She was a muse to many artists, such as Foujita.

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It was in this artistic avant-garde circle

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that Jeanne and Amedeo met one day.

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The moment she saw him, Jeanne knew Amedeo

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was a very special man.

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There were 17 years between them,

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but she immediately fell in love

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with this charming Lothario,

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who used to spout Baudelaire

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or Lautreamont\'s verses on cafe terraces.

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For Amedeo, Jeanne was the face.

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That face he\'d been seeking for so many years.

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They drew each other.

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It was the beginning of a great story of art and of love.

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With Jeanne, Amedeo found a new lease on life,

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a happiness he had lost after years of wandering.

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And with Amedeo, Jeanne discovered passion,

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spirit, and above all, freedom.

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No one in Jeanne\'s family

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saw this budding love in a particularly good light.

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Andre, her brother, had left for the front.

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He was jealous of the admiration

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his sister felt for this mad painter.

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Jeanne\'s parents considered Modigliani too Italian,

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too poor, too old for her, and above all, too Jewish.

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[train whistle trumpets]

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July 28th, 1917.

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Without saying a word, Jeanne packed her bags

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and left the family home for good.

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She wanted to live with Amedeo.

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Her parents saw her departure as a kidnapping.

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Jeanne was still a minor.

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She moved into Modigliani\'s studio,

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on the Rue de la Grande Chaumiere in Montparnasse.

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There, the two lovers spent their days together painting,

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drawing, side by side.

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Their apartment cum studio

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was rented from Polish-born, Leopold Zborowski,

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a poet and art dealer, on the lookout for new talent.

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Amedeo painted him for 10 francs a portrait.

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Leopold called him a genius.

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He was ready to back this artist

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everyone called headstrong and damned.

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Zborowski made a deal with him.

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15 francs a day in exchange for Amedeo\'s entire production.

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Amedeo made Jeanne his favorite model,

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and she thereafter refused to pose for anyone else.

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She became Modigliani\'s muse, his live material, his thing.

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She became this slender female fantasy

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with the elongated body, neck,

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and strange blue eyes with no pupils.

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To work, I need to see

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a living being in front of me.

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Once I understand your soul, I will paint your eyes.

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Amedeo painted Jeanne over and over.

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She became an obsession.

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With thick lips, a fleshy neck, and a round face,

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Jeanne looked nothing at all like the painter\'s vision.

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The young woman did not recognize herself.

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She too put her face on canvas.

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She began to paint as well.

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[wind whistling]

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Paris, its rooftops, her daily life.

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Everything inspired her.

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Jeanne rarely left the studio.

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She never painted outside.

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She saw the world from her window.

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A window that framed her view

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and kept the world at a distance.

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[gentle music]

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Under Amedeo\'s guidance, Jeanne began painting portraits.

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The lovers sometimes painted the same models.

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Jeanne became drawn to the outside world

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and drew it in its details, in backgrounds.

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Modigliani refined.

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He only wanted to see the face.

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There are similar features and shapes in their paintings.

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In their art, as in their love,

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the couple inspired and fulfilled each other.

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[car engine sputtering]

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They both worked a lot but sold nothing.

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The little money Amedeo earned was spent on alcohol.

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He gave his paintings away to the first person

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who would buy him a drink.

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And on some nights, he ended up dead drunk

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on dealer Leopold\'s door, hoping to get an advance

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to no end.

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[gentle brooding music]

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All alone, I swam and cried,

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curled up on the old sofa that was my bed.

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[gentle music]

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Jeannette, you\'re too pretty for me,

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and too sweet, and you cry milk tears.

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You should go home to your parents.

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You\'re not made for me.

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[gentle music]

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[door thuds]

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[gentle music]

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In November 1917,

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Modigliani was busy working on some 30 paintings,

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15 of them nudes.

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[gentle music]

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A solo exhibition of Modigliani was planned.

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Zborowski hoped to finally put his artist on the map.

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He found Modigliani\'s nudes revolutionary.

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The models were sensual, almost erotic.

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Modigliani neglected the arms and legs

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and concentrated on the woman\'s sex.

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[gentle music]

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[lively upbeat music]

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December 3rd, 1917.

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The big day had arrived.

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Amedeo and Jeanne dressed up for the opening.

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For years, Amedeo had been waiting for this moment.

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A good 30 of his paintings were being exhibited

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in Berthe Weill\'s avant-garde gallery.

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All of the Paris art world would be there.

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Jeanne was proud.

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But complaints were filed for an affront to public decency.

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Modigliani\'s nudes shocked the morals of the time.

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\"These nudes have hairs,\"

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an outraged police commissioner exclaimed.

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The offending paintings were immediately taken down.

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Modigliani was humiliated.

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It was a knife in his heart.

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[gentle somber music]

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[cannon firing]

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March 23rd, 1918.

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Paris was shelled by German cannons.

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The couple fled the capital for the south of France.

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[gentle music]

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Once again, Leopold Zborowski found money for their fares.

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As usual, Jeanne was drawing scenes from the daily life.

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She was more than ever, conscious of the emptiness,

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the danger around her.

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[gentle music]

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[people chattering]

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Nice was the promise of a new beginning for the couple.

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Amedeo hoped to sell his paintings

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to rich tourists in the region.

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Jeanne sat on a bench glowing

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as in her first days with Amedeo.

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She was pregnant.

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[gentle music]

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The man was happy, but the artist regretfully watched

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his muse\'s body disappear.

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Modigliani painted Jeanne with a rounded belly

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and a double chin.

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[gentle somber music]

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In Nice, the lovers wanted this happiness,

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to let light into their work and their lives.

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They moved to the heights of the city.

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Jeanne\'s mother was with them.

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She had come to look after her daughter,

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to be there when the baby arrived.

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Jeanne happily accepted this new family life.

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But after a few weeks, Amedeo lost it.

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[lively music]

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Jeanne\'s mother became aware of the artist\'s swinging moods

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and his somewhat explosive temperament.

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The menage a trois turned into a nightmare.

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[utensils clattering]

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[bright music]

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Modigliani packed his bags and moved into a hotel.

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Without the excitement of Paris

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and his obsession with Jeanne, he turned to landscapes.

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He painted three, the only ones known by the artist.

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His palette lightened.

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He chose the vertical portrait format,

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reflecting his obsession with the human face.

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[bell rings]

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[sheep bleating]

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[somber music]

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November 29th, 1918.

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Jeanne gave birth to a little girl.

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Modigliani ran out into the streets,

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screaming to anyone who would listen that he was a father

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and that the little one was named Jeanne, after her mother.

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[fireworks exploding]

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But Amedeo seems to have lost his papers.

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Jeanne understood that he would not recognize the child.

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In Nice, Modigliani could breath.

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His health improved but he realized that the fresh air

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was stifling his art.

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His paintings did not sell.

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[water sloshing]

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July 1919.

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[lively music]

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Amedeo and Jeanne didn\'t recognize their old neighborhood.

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Many of the artists who had once been their companions

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of misfortune, like Soutine, had left the capital.

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Others like Picasso, had gone on to better things.

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Modigliani\'s Montparnasse was gone.

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[somber music]

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The lovers found a new studio.

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And went back to their old life.

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[somber music]

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But now there was little Jeanne to think about.

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In fact, Amedeo and Jeanne had neither the financial means

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nor the psychological strength to raise a child.

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After a few months,

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they were forced to put the little girl with a child-minder.

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It was heart breaking, but also an admission,

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there was no room in their relationship for anyone else.

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[gentle music]

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In maternity, Modigliani painted Jeanne

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holding their little girl.

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Draped in blue, and looking serious,

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Jeanne looks like a Madonna,

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aware of their tragic family destiny.

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[water sloshing]

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She retreated into silence and depression.

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[somber music]

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She painted herself as she was,

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round face, luscious lips.

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She was not this woman with the long, thin face,

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who looked nothing like her.

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And yet the painter\'s influence prevailed.

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Jeanne painted herself in Amedeo\'s style,

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with only one eye.

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[footsteps thumping]

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In one of her drawings,

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she sees herself stabbed through the heart,

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and bathed in blood.

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[gentle somber music]

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Death was a deliverance.

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[gentle music]

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Jeanne was pregnant again.

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Amedeo promised her a better, a new life, in Italy,

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in the sun, with little Jeanne and the baby.

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And he believed it himself.

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Before a witness, he signed a promise of marriage.

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I promise today, July 7th 1919,

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to marry Miss Jeanne Hebuterne as soon as my papers arrive.

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[people chattering]

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[energetic music]

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In September, Modigliani exhibited in London,

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and then in Paris at the Salon d\'Automne.

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It was the first time his paintings had drawn attention.

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He had finally attained what he\'d always wanted

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in his paintings, a purification of forms and features.

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[gentle music]

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More than ever, Modigliani painted like a sculptor.

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He did away with the non-essential, the superfluous,

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to reach the depth of the human being.

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He was proud.

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He cut out articles praising his work from the papers

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and sent them to his mother in Italy.

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[gentle music]

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Recognition was promising, but perhaps too late.

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[gentle music]

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Modigliani was 36 years old.

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His face was puffy, scarred by his life\'s excesses.

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Then came the news, Amedeo had pulmonary meningitis.

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Modigliani could barely stand upright.

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He was spitting blood.

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Nothing gave him any relief.

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Neither alcohol nor drugs.

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Nor Jeanne\'s love.

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For days on end he stayed indoors,

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He was delirious, dreaming of Italy.

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He wanted his mother.

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[gentle ominous music]

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Jeanne sat holding his hand.

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She knew these were their last moments together.

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In a final effort, Amedeo dragged himself to his easel

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and painted this self-portrait.

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He stands in profile holding his palette,

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in the center of the painting.

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Behind him, the canvas is empty.

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Amedeo seems to have been saying

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that the artist would paint no more,

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but though the man might soon die,

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the painter would remain eternal.

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[gentle ominous music]

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On January 24, Amedeo Modigliani died in the hospital.

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[suspenseful music]

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Jeanne\'s parents refused to bury

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the little Jew as they called him.

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But they welcomed their daughter back into the home.

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[gentle ominous music]

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Her brother Andre watched over her.

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He knew how fragile she was.

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That night, Jeanne waited until everyone was asleep.

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Without a sound, she got up, opened the window

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and threw herself out from the fifth floor.

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[gentle ominous music]

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[crowd clapping]

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When her death was announced,

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the value of Modigliani\'s work sky-rocketed.

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Nude Reclining, the painting that had scandalized Paris

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at the Galerie Berthe Weill,

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became one of the most expensive paintings in the world.

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[gentle music]

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Leopold Zborowski made a fortune with Modigliani\'s paintings

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before he lost everything in the 1929 stock market crash.

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In 1930, 10 years after their deaths,

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Jeanne and Amedeo were reunited for eternity.

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The Hebuterne family finally accepted

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to let their daughter be buried

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next to the man she had loved.

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[gentle music]

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Little Jeanne, the couple\'s daughter,

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was adopted by Modigliani\'s sister.

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Jeanne Hebuterne\'s own work was long overlooked.

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It was not until the death of her brother Andre in 1992,

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that Jeanne Hebuterne\'s work

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were found in the back of a cellar.

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The art world finally discovered

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that Modigliani\'s muse was also a great artist.

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[bright upbeat music]