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GIORGIO MORANDI (1890-1964)
Natura morta
signed ‘Morandi’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
10 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (27.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1955
Provenance
B. Pero, Milan.
G. David Thompson Boston.
Charlotte Morat, Geneva, by the late 1970s and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
L. Vitali, Morandi, Dipinti, Catalogo generale, vol. II, 1948/1964, Milan, 1994, no. 944 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Giorgio Morandi September - November 1981, no. 50; this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 1981 - January 1982 and Iowa, The Des Moines Art Center, February - March 1982.
Freiburg, Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft Stiftung, on long term loan from 1983.
Verona, Galleria della scudo, The Later Morandi: Still Lifes, 1950-1964, December 1997 - February 1998; this exhibition later travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, April - September 1998.
Trieste, Galleria Torbandena, Giorgio Morandi Works 1913 -1956, October - November 2003.
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