Two works by Amadeo Modigliani - 'Portrait of Beatrice Hastings' (1916, oil on canvas, private collection), a talented and eccentric English woman, a circus artist, journalist, poetess, traveler, art critic, mistress and a preferred model of Modigliani, and 'Portrait of Raymond Radiguet' (1915, oil on canvas, private collection), a French author (1903-1923) associated with the Modernist set, friend of Picasso, Max Jacob, Jean Hugo, Juan Gris and especially of Jean Cocteau, who became his mentor.