GIORGIO MORANDI (1890-1964)

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).