Flowers
Technical Details
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Title
Flowers -
Author
Giorgio Morandi -
Year
1916 -
Dimensions
cm 60 x 50 -
Inventory
5084 -
Room
43
The Flowers, always assigned to 1916 – the year in which Morandi’s interest in still life, destined to become the dominant theme of his artistic speculation and his activity as a painter and engraver, began to become peremptory – have a precise iconographic source in Henri Rousseau’s painting, Bouquet de fleurs aux reines marguerites (Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania), published in the small volume dedicated to the Doganiere, edited by Ardengo Soffici for Libreria della Voce.
The value of tempera, beyond the exquisite chromatic whites and dusty pinks of the petals, the grays and silvery greens of the leaves, also lies in the natural metaphysical temperament suggested by the timeless atmosphere that permeates and sustains it.
