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Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
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Born 20 July 1890 · Died 18 June 1964 · Q309618
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Il Resto del Carlino: Giorgio Morandi, ambasciatore di Bologna, vola in Cina con oltre 140 opere
insider.si.edu: Giorgio Morandi : the art of silence / Janet Abramowicz
insider.si.edu: Morandi, 1890-1964 / edited by Maria Cristina Bandera and Renato Miracco ; [translations, Frank Dabell ... et al.]
Artnet: Spotlight: Giorgio Morandi’s Still Lifes Reveal New Secrets in an Expansive Exhibition in Rome
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao staged A Backward Glance: Giorgio Morandi and the Old Masters, an exhibition that placed Morandi's still lifes in dialogue with works by Old Masters he admired, including El Greco, Francisco
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Hyperallergic: Giorgio Morandi
A rare oval-shaped Morandi painting from the collection of David Rockefeller sold at Christie's in New York for US$4
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The New Criterion: Giorgio Morandi at the Center for Italian Modern Art
Hyperallergic: Pondering and Painting Giorgio Morandi’s Precise Compositions
Artnet: Giorgio Morandi: Uptight, But Into Butter Cream
The American photographer Joel Meyerowitz published Morandi's Objects, a book with photographs of more than 260 objects that the painter had collected during his life
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A Morandi exhibition was held at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium, with Luc Tuymans as guest artist
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Twenty-one works were shown at the Fortuny Museum in Venice, curated by Daniela Ferretti and Franco Calarota
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The Phillips Collection presented Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life, an exhibition of 60 works drawn primarily from Italian collections, with additions from collections in the United States
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964, a retrospective of about 110 paintings, watercolours and etchings, organized with MAMbo—Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna
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By Franco Solmi (previous director of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna) and the municipality of Bologna
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Has been housed since 2000 in the Campiaro complex, which includes the Museo degli Allievi, an exhibition space and the artist's family house, now a museum
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Died 1964-06-18.
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Awarded Rubenspreis (1962).
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The Grand Prize for painting at the same event in 1957, and the Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen in 1962
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And in the Rome Quadriennale, including the editions of 1931 and 1935
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Won first prize for painting, and in the Rome Quadriennale, in 1931 and 1935
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Illustrated the work Il sole a picco by Vincenzo Cardarelli, winner of the Premio Bagutta
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Joined the army, had a breakdown and was discharged
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In Bologna, alongside Mario Bacchelli, Osvaldo Licini, Severo Pozzati and Giacomo Vespignani, and at the First Free Futurist Exhibition at the Sprovieri Gallery in Rome
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When the Morandi family spent the summer there after a doctor recommended a stay in healthier air for his sister Anna
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Visited Florence, where the works of artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, and Paolo Uccello made a profound impression on him
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The family moved to Via Fondazza, and Giorgio became the head of the family
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Born 1890-07-20.
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