Sunday, October 12, 2008

Giorgio Morandi (NYC and BO)

Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Sepy 16 - Dec. 14 2008
MAMbo Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna: Jan. 22 - Apr. 12 2009

This is a comprehensive survey—the first in USA—of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th-century masters of still-life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin and Cézanne. The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early “metaphysical” works to his late evanescent still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including those formed with Morandi’s help by his friends and by renowned scholars of his art.

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