MODIGLIANI

Today is my favourite artist’s - Amedeo Modigliani - birthday. If he were still alive, he would be 121 and still painting or sculpting his gorgeous, long-necked people with their almond eyes. Instead he died at the age of 35 after a fantastically dissolutely artistic life: what a loss. There’s no doubt that if I’d been around in fin-de-siècle Paris, I’d have willingly volunteered to be his model. Will I have to wait for the centenary of his death in 2020 for the art world to recognise this amazing artist and stage a retrospective of his work?