1977.1: Still Life

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.1

People

Giorgio Morandi, Italian (Bologna 1890 - 1964 Bologna)

Title

Still Life

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1959-1964

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295909

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on white wove paper

Dimensions

13.5 x 25.8 cm (5 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Estate of Giorgio Morandi, Bologna, Italy, gift; to Private Collector, 1974, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Paul Rewald (1943-1976)

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.1

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Jean Leymarie, Gli acquarelli di Morandi, exh. cat., Edizioni De’ Foscherari (Bologna, 1968), no. 38, repr. [private collection, Bologna]
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), cat. no. 43 p. 105
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 80, n.p., and pp. 13, 76 and 77, repr. (color)
• Marilena Pasquali, Morandi: acquerelli: catalogo generale, Electa (Milan, 1991), no. 1960 29, repr. (color)
• Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi, Rizzoli (New York, 1997), no. 105, repr.

Exhibition History

• Gli acquarelli di Morandi, Galleria De' Foscherari, Bologna, 10/26/1968 - 11/23/1968
• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977

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