Death:Death by Accident 28 July 1984 (Accidentally fell, hit her head, age 65) chart Placidus Equal_H.
French noted family, the daughter of famous painter Amedeo Modigliani. Her parents died when she was very young, her mother a suicide, and Jeanne lived an eccentric life. Modigliani died of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by an accidental fall on 7/28/1984. Link to Wikipedia biography
Born Friday, 29 November 1918 in Nice, France, Jeanne Modigliani was an Italian-French art historian and the daughter of painter Amedeo Modigliani and artist Jeanne Hébuterne. She devoted her career to researching, documenting, and defending the legacy of her parents—especially her father—through scholarship, archival work, and public advocacy.
Raised among relatives after the early deaths of her parents, Jeanne became a central figure for Modigliani studies from the 1950s onward. She worked between Italy and France, consulted for exhibitions and publishers, and became a sought-after source for provenance research, authentication debates, and biographical clarity about Amedeo Modigliani and his circle.
Jeanne helped systematize research materials—letters, photographs, testimonies, and exhibition records—into a working archive that historians have continued to cite. She also collaborated with curators and scholars to correct myths and establish a more rigorous foundation for Modigliani scholarship.
Her best-known book is a biography of her father, commonly referenced in Italian and French editions as Modigliani: l’uomo e il mito / Modigliani: l’homme et le mythe (often translated as Modigliani: Man and Myth). First issued in the late 1950s with subsequent updated editions, it remains a core reference, combining family insight with documentary research and a careful separation of lore from fact.
Jeanne also contributed essays and interviews to exhibition catalogues and periodicals, emphasizing provenance, the early reception of Modigliani’s work, and the social-historical environment of Montparnasse in the 1910s.
Jeanne’s archival initiatives laid groundwork for subsequent catalogues raisonnés and institutional dossiers. Her efforts to gather first-hand testimonies, exhibition histories, and photographic documentation helped stabilize a field often complicated by misattributions and forgeries. She is widely acknowledged as a key voice who shifted Modigliani studies toward primary-source verification.
Jeanne Modigliani died in Paris on 27 July 1984. Since then, museums, libraries, and independent scholars have continued to draw on her work. Many catalogues and research notes trace back to materials she organized or made accessible.
Although Jeanne is deceased, her scholarship regularly resurfaces in exhibitions and academic publications on Modigliani. From 2018 onward, centenary-themed exhibitions and new technical studies have cited her biographical findings and archival leads. The continuing digitization of museum archives has made references to her work more discoverable, and provenance dossiers often credit her interviews and documentation.
Ongoing catalogue raisonné efforts, technical imaging studies, and retrospective shows at major institutions frequently acknowledge Jeanne’s role in shaping the documentary backbone of Modigliani research. Her perspective remains a touchstone when curators address disputed works or reconstruct early exhibition histories.
Jeanne Modigliani did not have personal social media accounts (she died in 1984). For updates related to her legacy and to Modigliani scholarship, follow major museums and research bodies that hold or exhibit Modigliani’s works—such as leading institutions in Paris, London, and New York (for example, Musée de l’Orangerie, Centre Pompidou, Tate, MoMA, the Met)—as well as reputable archives and academic publishers. These channels often share exhibition news, digitized documents, and essays that reference Jeanne’s research.