PARIS -- Jeanne Modigliani, daughter of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, died late Friday after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in a fall. She was 66.
Miss Modigliani died at the La Pitie hospital in Paris after she fell in her home, her family said Saturday..
Hours before her death, Miss Modigliani called on Italian authorities to donate two stone heads believed to be long-lost Modigliani sculptures to the city of Livorno, her father's birthplace.
The heads, one in granite and the other in sandstone, were found Tuesday by dredgers searching for sculptures that Modigliani, according to local legend, dumped in Livorno's Royal Canal after his friends scoffed at his art.
Modigliani gave up sculpting a short time later and moved to Paris.
Miss Modigliani, a teacher of Italian and a war-time resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation in France, was preparing a major centenary exhibition of her father's work at the time of her death.
Modigliani, born in 1884, died an unknown, poverty-stricken artist in 1920, shortly before his distinctive paintings of people with stylized, elongated features became world-famous.
Miss Modigliani dabbled in painting in the 1960s and wrote a biography of her father's struggle for survival in the bohemian Montparnasse district of Paris, the unofficial headquarters of the pre-World War II Paris school of artists.
