Name: GIORGIO MORANDI (1890-1964)
Brand: Natura morta con pane e limone
Price: 9000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

GIORGIO MORANDI (1890-1964)
Natura morta con pane e limone
etching, 1921, on Japan paper, annotated in pencil Sospendere la tiratura, a working proof of this very rare, unpublished print
Plate 34 x 71 mm.
Sheet 209 x 247 mm.

With Libreria Prandi, Reggio Emilia (with their blindstamp).

Vitali 13; Cordaro 1921.8; Catalogo Prandi 447

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Lot Essay

Of this small and humble still life, Morandi printed only a few impressions himself. As usual, he then sent the copperplate to Carlo Alberto Petrucci, the director of the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome. The Calcografia printed, exhibited and marketed Morandi's etchings. The present impression, one of a small number of working proofs pulled by Petrucci, is the only one known with an instruction handwritten by the artist. It is inscribed Sospendere la Tiratura ('Stop the print run'), and accordingly, no edition was ever printed. This impression is cited in Michele Cordaro's catalogue raisonné of Morandi's printed oeuvre (1991).