Jeanne Nechtschein, nee Modigliani was an Italian artist, the daughter of Amedeo Modigliani, a famous Italian painter/sculptor, and Jeanne Hébuterne, a French artist and Modigliani's common law wife who was often the subject of his nude paintings. After the tragic death of her parents when she was only fourteen months old, Jeanne Modigliani was cared for by her maternal grandparents until her paternal Aunt Margarita adopted her. As an artist, Jeanne Modigliani painted abstract compositions. She is also known as a biographer of her father, writing the book Modigliani, Man and Myth, published in 1958. She was the ex-wife of Italian economist and journalist Mario Cesare Silvio Levi and Valdemar Nechtstein. She divorced Valdemar Nechtstein in 1980, four years prior to her death. Jeanne Modigliani, died on a Friday afternoon in Paris at 'La Pitié Hospital, where she was hospitalized after a fall that had caused a brain hemorrhage. She was 66 years old when she died. Jeanne had two children: Anne Nechtschein Modigliani, Laure Nechtschein Modigliani She was the half sister of don Gerald Thiroux;Her maternal uncle André Hébuterne died in his 98th year in 1992 in Paris. Jeanne is buried in Cimetiere de Bagneux in Bagneux France.
Jeanne Nechtschein, nee Modigliani was an Italian artist, the daughter of Amedeo Modigliani, a famous Italian painter/sculptor, and Jeanne Hébuterne, a French artist and Modigliani's common law wife who was often the subject of his nude paintings. After the tragic death of her parents when she was only fourteen months old, Jeanne Modigliani was cared for by her maternal grandparents until her paternal Aunt Margarita adopted her. As an artist, Jeanne Modigliani painted abstract compositions. She is also known as a biographer of her father, writing the book Modigliani, Man and Myth, published in 1958. She was the ex-wife of Italian economist and journalist Mario Cesare Silvio Levi and Valdemar Nechtstein. She divorced Valdemar Nechtstein in 1980, four years prior to her death. Jeanne Modigliani, died on a Friday afternoon in Paris at 'La Pitié Hospital, where she was hospitalized after a fall that had caused a brain hemorrhage. She was 66 years old when she died. Jeanne had two children: Anne Nechtschein Modigliani, Laure Nechtschein Modigliani She was the half sister of don Gerald Thiroux;Her maternal uncle André Hébuterne died in his 98th year in 1992 in Paris. Jeanne is buried in Cimetiere de Bagneux in Bagneux France.
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