Reviews

"Secrest offers vividly detailed accounts of Parisian bohemia. . .She takes us on a fascinating, up-to-the-present tour of the artist's posthumous history. . . particularly gripping in her description of the end of his life. . . Secrest's book both preserves and alters [Modigliani's] legend. Modigliani's story is by far the most interesting thing about him. It is certainly the most complex thing, and Secrest lets the complexity unfold in complicated ways, probing it with a historian's eye, dramatizing it with an advocate's passion."
"--"Holland Cotter, "The New York Times Book Review"
"[Secrest is an] adept biographer. . . a masterly account."
"--"Peter Schjeldahl," The New Yorker
""An engaging writer and highly accomplished biographer...the man [Secrest] portrays is far more complicated and interesting than his popular image."
"--"Suzanne Muchnic, "Los Angeles Times"
"With a keen nose for canards and unprecedented access to primary materials, exemplary