In 1958 she wrote the book Modigliani: Man and Myth, later translated into English from the Italian by Esther Rowland Clifford.
Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterised by mask-like faces (without eyes) and elongation of form.
There, inconsolable, deeply depressed, eight months pregnant, and in despair, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and her unborn second child.
[3] Jeanne first married the Italian Jewish economist and journalist Mario Cesare Silvio Levi (born 1905), brother of the more famous Natalia Ginzburg.
During this time she met another Resistance fighter, Valdemar "Valdi" Nechtschein (his nom de guerre was Victor Leduc), who was also married.