Giorgio Morandi, “Peculiar Realist”

Detail of Autoritratto (Self Portrait), 1930, oil on canvas

This is the last of the very few self portraits Morandi painted



There are several ways
I could begin this report. The first would be to tell you that when you walk off the
elevator on the fourth floor of the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) in
SoHo you encounter a


many-times-larger-than-life photograph of Morandi’s