Amedeo Modigliani: A painter and his dealer

It would have been through the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) that the young gallery owner and collector Paul Guillaume discovered Modigliani in 1914. He probably then became his dealer; this is evident in the correspondence between Paul Guillaume and his mentor, the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) who was then at the Front. It was within this Parisian context that Modigliani immortalised the gallery owner in a series of painted and drawn portraits that have remained famous: he completed no fewer than four of these between 1915 and 1916.