From Publishers Weekly:
Genuine insights into the character and curious art of Modigliani, into his relationships with Picasso, Cocteau, Utrillo, Foujita, Braque, Léger, and others.

From the Houston Post:
Most illuminating is Fifield's excavation into the influences on Modigliani's modern yet most classic long-necked heads and figures, including Etruscan art, several Tuscany artists over centuries, ancient Egyptians, Ivory Coast African art and the postcards of 14th-century Italian artists Modigliani carried everywhere, among them works by the 14th-century Duccio di Buoninsegna.

From Art, Cultural Information Service:
Fifield does a remarkable job depicting Modigliani's love-hate relationship with women and succeeds in giving us a double sense of the painter's genius and extreme vulnerability.

From the Manchester Evening News (U.K.):
The author uses a series of interviews with people who knew that most bohemian of all artists as the springboard for an excellent biography. The artist's richly fleshed nudes with lean, tense faces owe much to the "discovery" of African art and, as Mr. Fifield makes clear, we owe much of our knowledge of the artist to the discovery and presentation by dealers of him as a drug-crazed alcoholic spending as much time in bed with his models as actually painting them. As a biography of a great artist it is considerate and profound...and as a piece of writing it is both stylish and entertaining.