"At last William Fifield sets the record straight in a carefully researched, compelling biography. It is made from what the author calls "living witnesses," among them everyone alive ... who has been painted or drawn by Modigliani. The main witnesses were Picasso, Diego Rivera, Cocteau, Braque, Jeanne Modigliani, the painter's daughter, Lunia Czechowska, the greatest of his models, Vera Modigliani ... [and more.]"--Cover back.