Ambrogio Ceroni recorded it as No. 7 in his catalogue raisonné of Modigliani's work.
Most of them studied Dr. Modigliani's work in business school.
Modigliani's work in the medium was admired by the British artists Augustus John and Jacob Epstein (the London art world took to Modigliani, deliriously so by the time of his death, well before the Parisian did), and by the young Jacques Lipchitz.
Set aside this exhibition's awkward attempts to underscore the specifically Jewish character of Modigliani's work (for example, curators point to his formal fascination with noses); for anyone chiefly familiar with the masklike faces and stylized bodies of Modigliani's later paintings, this trove of early drawings will be a revelation.
The Professional Service Series documents Modigliani's work for various U.S. agencies and organizations.
Researchers will find ample documentation in the collection on Modigliani's work on the life-cycle hypothesis of savings, leading to the Nobel Prize in 1985.
Franco Modigliani, Italy's Nobel prize-winning economist, signed his thesis; Stanley Fischer, now the governor of Israel's central bank, was his main adviser.
Drafts, correspondence, and research material related to Miller's foundational work with Franco Modigliani is found in this series.
In 1953, he moved on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University), where he began working with Franco Modigliani on a series of papers on corporate finance.
Leah Modigliani, a researcher at Morgan Stanley, has worked with her grandfather Franco Modigliani, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, on a risk-adjusted measure (informally known as M2) that allows investors to compare individual funds as well as broader sectors and indices.
In 1990, Miller's research with Franco Modigliani earned him the Nobel Prize in economics, which he shared with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.
