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The Misunderstood BohemianA new Modigliani retrospective moves "Beyond the Myth."

By Mario NavesPosted Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 4:06 PM ET

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Mario Naves is an artist who writes about art. His criticism appears regularly in the New York Observer.
Images: Young Seated Boy With Cap, 1918, oil on canvas, Private collection; Portrait, c. 1918. Photo courtesy CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux; Caryatid, 1914, gouache on wove paper, mounted on canvas, mounted on wood panel. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Gift of Oveta Culp Hobby; Head of a Woman, 1912, limestone, 22 7/8 x 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (58 x 12 x 16 cm). Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, Purchase of M. Poyet in 1949, AM 876 S.; Jeanne Hébuterne, 1919, oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956. Photograph © 1985, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Reclining Nude (La rêveuse), 1917, oil on canvas. From the collection of William I. Koch, Palm Beach, Florida.
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