Portrait photo of Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne in her studio.
Portrait photo of Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne.
Jeanne Hébuterne in her studio.
Jeanne Hébuterne.
Hébuterne was born in Meaux, Ile-de-France, France, on April 6, 1898, into a middle-class family. She was the daughter of Eudoxia Anaïs Tellier Hébuterne and Achille Casimir Hébuterne. Her father worked at Le Bon Marché department store. Jeanne Hébuterne had a brother André Hébuterne, who was also a painter.
Jeanne Hébuterne was introduced to the artistic community in Montparnasse by her brother André Hébuterne. She got acquainted with several of the then-starving artists and was also a model for Tsuguharu Foujita. However, Hébuterne wanted to pursue a career in the arts and chose to study at the Académie Colarossi.
Hébuterne was inspired by the artists of the Fauves and Nabis schools. She was quite experimental in the creation of her artworks. The influence of Matisse is obvious in some of her works.
According to the art experts, Modigliani’s paintings must have impacted Hébuterne’s style, but there was most apparently a deeper artistic connection between the two as Hébuterne as a woman, as a mother and as an artist certainly fuelled Modigliani’s artistic production.
Jeanne Hébuterne didn't manage to create a great number of paintings during her short lifetime. In addition, it took about thirty years before the Hébuterne heirs agreed to provide public access to Jeanne Hébuterne's artworks.
Jeanne Hébuterne was a prominent artist, whose artworks were highly appreciated. She created a number of well-known paintings, including Natura morta, Self portrait, Death, Portrait of Modigliani, etc.
In the 1990s, French singer Véronique Pestel paid tribute to Jeanne Hébuterne through her song "Jeanne Hébuterne". Besides, there were shot two films about Hébuterne. The film "Montparnasse 19" was created by Jacques Becker, where Hébuterne was played by Anouk Aimée, and in Mick Davis' "Modigliani" by Elsa Zylberstein.
In 2006 novelist France Huser published a novel "La Fille à lèvre d'orange", of which Jeanne Hébuterne was the heroine. In 2017 Olivia Elkaim, another French novelist, wrote "Je suis Jeanne Hébuterne", in which Jeanne Hébuterne, the main character, recounted her passion for Amadeo Modigliani.
Portrait of Amadeo Modigliani
Self portrait
Natura morta
Death
Self portrait
La femme au collier, modèle de Modigliani
La vieille dame au collier ou Portrait d'Eudoxie Hébuterne
Jeune fille du 6 février
Self portrait
Portrait de femme
Étude de visage féminin
Femme au chapeau
Portrait d'Amedeo Modigliani au chapeau
Portrait de jeune fille
Self portrait
Femme nue
Les toits rouges
Eudoxie-Anaïs Tellier, la mère de Jeanne Hébuterne, à la théière
Portrait de Modigliani à la pipe
Portrait de Chaïm Soutine
Jeanne Hébuterne's parents were Roman Catholic.
Jeanne Hébuterne was characterized as gentle, quiet, shy, delicate, almost melancholic, yet she could be ruthless in her character assassinations.
Physical Characteristics: Hébuterne had a pale complexion framed by her dark auburn hair which she often wore in long braids. Because of her unusual appearance, her fellow art students nicknamed Jeanne Hébuterne ‘Noix-de-Coco’ (coconut).
It was in the spring of 1917 that Jeanne Hébuterne was introduced to Amedeo Modigliani, her future husband, by the sculptor Chana Orloff who came with many other artists to take advantage of the Academy's live models. Jeanne started an affair with the charismatic artist, and eventually, the two fell deeply in love. Hébuterne soon began to live with Amedeo Modigliani, in spite of her parents' strong objection. Jeanne Hébuterne was a pivotal subject for Modigliani's art.
In the spring of 1918, Jeanne Hébuterne with his husband moved to the warmer climate of Nice, where their daughter, Jeanne di Amedeo Modigliani, was born on November 29, 1918. The following spring, the couple moved back to Paris and Jeanne became pregnant again. By this time, Modigliani was suffering from tuberculous meningitis and his health was getting worse and worse. As a result, Amedeo Modigliani died on January 24, 1920.
Hébuterne's moved to the house of her parents. However, Jeanne couldn't put up with the death of her husband and threw herself out of the fifth-floor apartment window two days after Amedeo Modigliani's death.
Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani's orphaned daughter, Jeanne Modigliani, was adopted by her father's sister in Florence, Italy. She grew up knowing practically nothing of the life of her parents. As an adult, she began researching their lives. In 1958, she wrote a biography of her father that was published in the English language in the United States under the title "Modigliani: Man and Myth".
André Hébuterne (1894-1992), was a French painter. He had enormous success as an artist but made etchings that appeared in a 1948 reprint of a Gargantua book based on the François Rabelais creation.
Jeanne Modigliani (1918-1984) was an Italian-French Jewish art historian. She was mostly known for her biographical research on her father, artist Amedeo Modigliani, titled "Modigliani: Man and Myth".
