Still Life by Giorgio Morandi
Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life

Giorgio Morandi · 1955

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold through Il Milione Galleria d’arte Moderna, Milan, to Ruth Villalovos (1928-2026, formerly Mrs. Ruth Agoos, Cambridge, MA), Graton, CA and Mexico, 1955 [letter from Julie Castellano, Zabriskie Gallery, Nov. 29, 2000, copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Zabriskie Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 14, 2001.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Lincoln, MA, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, A Decade in Review, April 27–June 1, 1958, cat. 53.
  • Boston, Boston University Art Gallery, Works from Private Collections, Apr. 23–May 14, 1960, cat. 64.
  • Cambridge, MA, Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, Giorgio Morandi 1890–1964, Jan. 12–Feb. 10, 1968, cat. 4.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale, Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 5–Aug. 24, 2003, no. 22.

Literature

Published references

  • Frederick P. Walkey, A Decade in Review, exh. cat. (Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1958), n.p. (ill.).
  • Works from Private Collections, exh. cat. (Boston: Boston University Art Gallery, 1960), n.p. (ill.).
  • Janet Abramowicz, Giorgio Morandi 1890–1964, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, 1968), 43.
  • Lamberto Vitali, Morandi: Catalogo Generale, cat. raisonné (Milano: Electa, 1977), no. 968.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p. (ill.).
  • Stephanie D’Alessandro, “Still Life,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), 80-81 (color ills.).

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