Flowers
Technical Details
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Title
Flowers -
Author
Giorgio Morandi -
Year
1918 -
Dimensions
cm 82 x 66 -
Inventory
7410 -
Room
48 -
Signature
Morandi 1918
The large Flowers of 1918, replicated in counterpart in 1929 in the engraving Rose in bud in a vase, are close to the still lifes of 1916 and 1917 and mark Morandi’s transition, as Vitali noted, “to so-called metaphysical painting inspired by problems of a completely different order and whose results are, in a sense, even antithetical to the earlier ones.”
The painting, an absolute masterpiece of this moment, “solemn, sweet, harsh, skillfully scorned in its workmanship,” lives on the personal and exhilarating feeling of a time that was coming to a close of which Vitali, who disliked the later metaphysical period, was keenly aware.
The work, almost a unicum because of its considerably larger-than-usual size, held by Vitali in a dominant, central position in the living room-studio where he used to receive, was purchased by him directly from the artist at the Venice Biennale in 1928.
