Still Life, Giorgio Morandi, c. 1959-1964
Giorgio Morandi, portraitGiorgio MorandiItalian, 1890–1964

Still Life

c. 1959-1964 · Drawing

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Where is “Still Life” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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Accession number
1977.1

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In the life of Giorgio Morandi

The whole life
  1. 1957

    Grand Prize for painting at the São Paulo Biennial

    He wins the Grand Prize for painting at the São Paulo Biennial, four years after the Grand Prize for a series of etchings.

  2. late 1950s

    Trouble with his eyesight

    In one of his rare interviews he says that, because of serious problems with his eyesight, he now paints only four or five pictures a year.

  3. 1959

    A house at Grizzana

    He builds a house at Grizzana, 30 kilometres from Bologna, where he spends the summers with his sisters in his last years too. The fame that came after the war does not change his modest way of life: he remains unmarried and lives with his unmarried sisters in the old-fashioned family flat in Bologna, where one room serves as his studio and bedroom.

  4. 11 July 1959 – 11 October 1959

    Exhibition: Documenta II

  5. 1962

    Solo exhibition in Siegen

    After a solo exhibition in Siegen he is awarded the Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen.

  6. 18 June 1964

    Died

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