A must have for the Morandi collector!
GEORGIO MORANDI:
OPERA GRAFICA
BY
Lamberto Vitali
Giulio Einaudi, editore
1957
FIRST EDITION
Esemplare n. 780 of 1000
DESCRIPTION OF BOOK:
This edition of "Giorgio Morandi opera grafica" is very rare. 117 lithographs
of the works in "Acqua forte su zinco" (etchings) from 1912 to 1956. All of the
lithographs are tipped into a separate paper sleeve, with the title, date,
origin, size, states and other information on the front of each. The complete
portfolio is in a fine cloth box, with slipcase the same color as the box.
The first sleeve contains the publishing info along with a foreward by Lamberto
Vitali, a table with corresponding numbers to another catalog, a list of the
illustrations contained in the edition, and the page with the edition number.
Please note that this portfolio is missing 5 of the illustrations.
I just sat and went through this collection, to provide the above information. These are lovely reproductions of Morandi’s work, very lyrical and light.
There are 117 plates.
The slipcover is 12“ wide x 16 3/4“ high.
The individual sleeves are 11 ¼” wide x 15 ¼” high.
DESCRIPTION OF CONDITION:
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AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY:
Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna in 1890. In 1907 he went to study at the
Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting
with an idiom related to Cézanne and to Cubism, with a brief digression into a
Futurist style in 1914. In that same year, Morandi was appointed instructor of
drawing for elementary schools in Bologna — a post he held until 1929. Today,
there is a museum dedicated to the display of Morandi's work, including a
reconstruction of his studio, in Bologna.
In 1915, he joined the army but suffered a breakdown and was indefinitely discharged. During the war, Morandi's still lifes became more reduced in their compositional elements and purer in form, revealing his admiration for both Cézanne and the Douanier Rousseau.
A Metaphysical painting (Pittura Metafisica) phase in Morandi's work lasted
from 1918 to 1922. This was to be his last major stylistic shift; thereafter, he
focused increasingly on subtle gradations of hue, tone, and objects arranged in
a unifying atmospheric haze, establishing the direction his art was to take for
the rest of his life. Morandi showed in the Novecento italiano
exhibitions of 1926 and 1929, but was more specifically associated with the
regionalist Strapaese group by the end of the decade, a
fascist-influenced group emphasizing local cultural traditions. From 1930 to
1956, Morandi was a professor of etching at Accademia di Belle Arti. The 1948
Venice Biennale awarded him first prize for painting, he visited Paris for the
first time in 1956, and in 1957 he won the grand prize in São Paulo's Biennale.
Throughout his career, Morandi concentrated almost exclusively on still lives
and landscapes, except for a few self-portraits. With great sensitivity to tone,
color, and compositional balance, he would depict the same familiar bottles and
vases again and again in paintings notable for their simplicity of execution.
Morandi executed 133 etchings, a significant body of work in its own right, and
his drawings and watercolors often approach abstraction in their economy of
means.
Morandi was one of the most impressive Italian painters of his day. Federico Fellini paid tribute to him in his film La Dolce Vita, which featured Morandi's paintings. Morandi was additionally perceived as one of the few Italian artists of his generation to have escaped the taint of Fascism, and to have evolved a style of pure pictorial values congenial to modernist abstraction. Through his simple and repetitive motifs and economical use of color, value and surface, Morandi became a prescient and important forerunner of Minimalism. He died in Bologna in 1964.