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Modigliani's elongated nudes and portrait heads—almond eyes, graceful necks, hauntingly blank expressions—form one of early Modernism's most coherent bodies of work. 'Nu couché' sold for $170.4 million in 2015. Dying at 35 from tuberculosis in Paris, he left a relatively small output that bridges Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. His romantic biography and pictorial refinement ensure ferocious collector demand.
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