UNMISTAKEABLE LONG NECKS
It was good to be getting back to the Tate Modern. Maybe this time with Pierrette it would seem more like a museum rather than a station with people rushing around getting lost - like I had. We were to see the Modigliani retrospective. An anecdote to start off with:- It wasn’t the voluptuous curves of the naked woman, stretched out across the window of a small Paris gallery in 1917, which horrified the police commissioner who unfortunately lived directly opposite. It was the shocking fact that the artist had given her hair – and not just on her head, but pubic and underarm hair as well. That exhibition was the only solo show in the lifetime of an artist whose life was short, poor, and scarred by illness and alcohol and probably drugs I had read before coming that the exhibition would bring together ten of the nudes. No photographs either so I resorted to a small catalogue. I did not photo all the nudes…. Reclining nude - 1919 Caryatid - 1913-14 Female Nude - 1916