(Bologna 1890–1964)
Cortile di via Fondazza, 1962, signed Morandi, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 35.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria del Milione, Milan, no. 10140 (labels and stamp on the reverse)
C. Tosi Collection, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Nijmeegs Museum and Innsbruck, Tiroler Künstlerschaft im Kunstpavillon im kleinen Hofgarten, Morandi: Die Sammlung des Morat-Instituts für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Nijmegen: Nijmeegs Museum and Innsbruck, Tiroler Künstlerschaft im Kunstpavillion im kleinen Hofgarten, 1982, exh. cat. no.15
Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum and Dresden, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen, Giorgio Morandi, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, 1993, exh. cat., no. 9 with ill.
Brescia, Morandi. Oggetti e stati d’animo, Palazzo Martinengo, December 1996-March 1997, p. 126 with ill.
Tokyo, G. Morandi, flowers and landscape, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 1998; Light and Greenery Art Museum, December 1998-February 1999, exh. cat. no. 45 with ill.
San Francisco, Giorgio Morandi: paintings, Paul Thiebald Gallery, 4 November-20 December 2003
London, Faggionato Fine Art, 26 May-9 July 2004, exh. cat. no. 11 with ill.
London, G. Morandi. Through light, Imago Art Gallery, exh. cat. no. 13 with ill.

Literature:
L. Vitali, Morandi. Catalogo Generale, Electa Mondadori, Milan 1977, 1983, 1994, no. 1327 with ill.
V. Cardarelli, Il sole a picco, Bologna 1984, cover ill.
C. Brandi, Morandi, Editori Riuniti, Rome 1990, no. 33 with ill.

– So, I saw that you’ve got a magnificent Morandi.
– Oh yes, he’s the painter I admire most. The objects are bathed in something like sunlight, aren’t they? And yet they’re painted with a detachment, a rigour, a precision that makes them almost tangible. You could say it’s art where nothing happens by chance.
La dolce vita, Federico Fellini, 1960