Why did Modigliani paint portraits and female nudes?

Amedeo Modigliani was a talented painter, draftsman and sculptor born in Livorno, Italy, on July 12, 1884, and died in Paris on January 24, 1920, at the age of 35, due to tuberculous meningitis, when he was just beginning to achieve success and fame, which were longed for by the artist, who lived a wild, bohemian life, between several passionate and stormy romances. From childhood until his death Modigliani was loved by women; first of all for his mother, the French Eugenia Garsin, intellectual and freethinker, who from the age of 11 guided him to the study of drawing and painting; then he had affairs with almost all the models who posed for him, hence his work is, fundamentally, portraits and nudes, since he said that “painting a woman is possessing her”; but the women with whom he had a more serious and tormented relationship were Beatrice Hastings, an English writer; Eleonora Duse, Russian actress; the Canadian Simone Thiroux, a medical student, and Jeanne Hébuterne (2), a French painter and model, the latter his great love, with whom he had a daughter, Jeanne Modigliani, whose birth name was Giovanna Hébuterne, who later wrote her father’s biography: Modigliani, Man and Myth. <a href="https://medium.com/@arteoriginal.co/why-did-modigliani-paint-portraits-and-female-nudes-cdc61a509d27">Read More</a>