Still Life
- Artist
- Giorgio Morandi, Italian, 1890–1964
- Date
- 1953–54
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 209
- Dimensions
- 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm)
framed: 14 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (35.9 x 46 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Professor and Mrs. Theo Haimann
- Rights
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY / SIAE, Rome
- Object Number
- 230:1957
NOTES
A tightly arranged group of three boxes, a blue vase, and a white jar sit on a table top represented only by a single line. Giorgio Morandi’s simple, geometric forms create an abstract pattern of verticals and horizontals. This work is characteristic of the still-life subjects that Morandi produced obsessively for more than forty years in his apartment in Bologna, Italy. His is an art of calm restraint in contrast to the other more flamboyant developments of modern art.
Provenance
- 1957
Professor and Mrs. (Ruth G.) Theo Haimann, Tucson, AZ, purchased from the artist [1]
1957 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Professor and Mrs. (Ruth G.) Theo Haimann [2]
Notes:
[1] Telephone conversation between Renée DeVoe Mertz and donors' daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Haimann Vandiver, on October 17, 2007 [notes in SLAM document file].
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and the Advisory Committee of the City Art Museum, October 10, 1957.
Professor and Mrs. (Ruth G.) Theo Haimann, Tucson, AZ, purchased from the artist [1]
1957 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Professor and Mrs. (Ruth G.) Theo Haimann [2]
Notes:
[1] Telephone conversation between Renée DeVoe Mertz and donors' daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Haimann Vandiver, on October 17, 2007 [notes in SLAM document file].
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and the Advisory Committee of the City Art Museum, October 10, 1957.