Vatican Museums

This painting, very structured in its composition, belongs to one of the most intense periods in the art of Giorgio Morandi. Produced in 1943, a dramatic year in European history, the canvas accommodates in a very limited space a poetic encounter of seven objects that measure spatial depth and animate the scene with their different formal and chromatic personalities. The real protagonist of the work is the clean and transparent light of spring, the season in which the painting was born in Morandi’s studio-room in Via Fondazza, in Bologna. The still life is framed by a passe-partout designed and created by the same artist. The work belongs to a very valuable body of Morandi’s masterpieces present in the Collection, composed of another five paintings, a series of six drawings and the same number of etchings.