Giorgio Morandi. Natura morta (1954). Oil on canvas. 26 x 70 cm. Mart, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Collezione Augusto e Francesca Giovanardi. Archivio fotografico Mart. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.
Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964, co-organized by the Museo d’Arte Moderna of Bologna and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the first comprehensive survey of Morandi’s work in the United States. The exhibition gathered 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings by the reserved, often elusive, and sometimes underappreciated Italian painter of still life and landscape. The curators, Maria Cristina Bandera, Director of the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence, and Renato Miracco, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute...