Self-Portrait
Technical Details
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Title
Self-Portrait -
Author
Giorgio Morandi -
Year
1924 -
Dimensions
cm 48.5 x 40 -
Inventory
5463 -
Room
43 -
Signature
Morandi
Morandi, the author of non-contingent still lifes and landscapes, always rejected the human figure. Figure works, excluding the three studies of Cézanne’s Bathers of 1915, are limited to a very few etching portraits essentially repudiated by the artist. This half-length self-portrait, considered a preparatory study of the one in the manner of Corot, with palette and brush, also of ’24, with the figure set frontally, lit from the left, with the eyes concealed in shadow, remains fixed in the memory for the epidermal sensitivity of the tonal research that from the dense and tangible white of the shirt passes to the pink of the face, to the faded green of the background, to find a more intense note in the splendid blue of the vest.
