Giorgio Morandi

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

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Description

FIORI
signed Morandi (lower right)
oil on canvas
25.4 by 30.5cm.
10 by 12in.

Provenance

José Luis & Beatriz Plaza, Caracas (acquired from the artist in 1963. Sale: Sotheby's, London, 9th December 1997, lot 325)
Private Collection, USA (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 4th May 2005, lot 248)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Caracas, Fundación Mendoza, Homenaje a Giorgio Morandi, 1965, no. 26
Caracas, Fundación Mendoza, Giorgio Morandi, un homenaje, 1986, no. 29
Caracas, Fundación Mendoza, Homenaje a José Luis Plaza, 1991, no. 23

Literature

Lamberto Vitali, Morandi, Catalogo generale, volume secondo, 1948-1964, Milan, 1994, no. 1259, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Fig. 1, Morandi's studio