A Sotheby's employee discusses the merits of the painting "La Belle Romaine" by Amedeo Modigliani during a preview of Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art auction in New York. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist...

Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude (Céline Howard), 1918, Private collection, Geneva. BONN.- Amedeo Modigliani was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His iconic works are deeply engrained in the collective pictorial memory. The Art...