Background
Her father, Amedeo Modigliani, was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France.
Her father, Amedeo Modigliani, was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France.
Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterised by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in 1920 of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics. She committed suicide the day after his death.
Jeanne married Italian economist and journalist Mario Cesare Silvio Levi.
During World World War II, she participated in the French Resistance. During this time she met another Resistance fighter, Valdemar "Valdi" Nechtschein, who was also married.
Their second daughter together, Laure, was born in 1951.
