Still Life
Giorgio Morandi
Italian, 1890–1964
1938
An oil painting of a tabletop arrangement of bottles, jars and a pan in which Morandi pares forms and color to study their spatial relationships and quiet rhythms.
What strikes you is the restrained palette and simplified, almost sculptural silhouettes—earthy neutrals interrupted by bold cobalt and russet—that read like a calm, measured choreography across the canvas.
This work distills the still life to its essentials, demonstrating Morandi’s influence in shifting modern painting toward austerity and serial examination of form and space, a meditative approach that helped prefigure aspects of Minimalism and postwar abstraction.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 15 5/8" (24.1 x 39.7 cm)
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Credit
Purchase
Accession
688.1949
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