Giorgio Morandi: 5 Drawings

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Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964)
Still life painter, Landscape painter, Etcher

Still Life, 1958 

Pencil on Paper

Giorgio Morandi

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Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. At the age of 17 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and discovered contemporary art in books on Impressionism, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat and Henri Rousseau.  [Source]

 

 

Still Life, 1961

Pencil on Paper

Giorgio Morandi

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 He read with interest the articles by Ardengo Soffici in La voce and saw the Venice Biennale of 1910, where he first came across the painting of Auguste Renoir.  [Source] 

 

Landscape, 1961

(Paesaggio)

 Giorgio Morandi

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During this period he often went to Florence to study the works of Giotto, Masaccio and Paolo Uccello. Between 1911 and 1914, when he was in Rome, he was impressed by the work of Claude Monet and, especially, Paul Cézanne.  [Source]

Landscape, 1961

(Paesaggio)

 Giorgio Morandi

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At the Futurist exhibition Lacerba , held in the Libreria Gonnelli, Florence, in 1913–14, he met Umberto Boccioni. Shortly afterwards he showed his first paintings at the Albergo Baglioni in Bologna and the Galleria Sprovieri in Rome.  [Source]

 

Still Life

Pen and Ink on Paper

Giorgio Morandi

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 When he was not painting, he taught drawing in primary schools.  [Source]

Giorgio Morandi, 1962
Pencil on Paper
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Giorgio Morandi, 1962
Pencil on Paper
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Giorgio Morandi, 1962
Pencil on Paper
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