Still Life with Four Objects and Three Bottles

1956 · Print

Can I see it?

Not on view at present

Where is “Still Life with Four Objects and Three Bottles” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

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

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 1980.45.18

What it shows

Still life Table Bottle Writing

In the catalog

Prints Etching Post-war art 20th century Italian

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder

In the life of Giorgio Morandi

The whole life

1930–1956
Chair of etching technique at the Bologna Academy
His successes in etching during the 1920s allow him to head the chair of engraving technique at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, which he holds until 1956.
16 July 1955 – 18 September 1955
Exhibition: documenta
1956
Solo exhibition in Winterthur
He travels to Winterthur for the opening of a solo exhibition and studies works by Chardin and Cézanne in the Oskar Reinhart Collection.
1956
His first trip to Paris
He visits Paris for the first time, a trip he had dreamed of since the early 1910s.
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.
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.