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Old 07-06-2012, 12:08 PM
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Old 07-06-2012, 01:49 PM
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Oops, I overlooked the watermark in the lower right. Here is an image of the work without it. Moderators, is it possible to replace the image in the first post with this one?

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Old 07-06-2012, 07:07 PM
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Re: Mm2224

In describing this work of his to a friend over the phone, Sean Scully compared its palette to that of the mystery master.

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Old 07-07-2012, 12:32 PM
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The mystery artist painted the scene outside his studio multiple times. The MM is one; here is another from a few years earlier (the subject of the MM can be seen upper left).

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American?
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:29 PM
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European.

Artist is not that well known for his watercolors though I quite like them. (detail, cropped to remove signature)

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Old 07-07-2012, 09:50 PM
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Italian. Early in his career he was associated with Pittura Metafisica.

Another watercolor:

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An early surrealistic still life by the artist. All the other works posted have been from fairly late in his career.


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That last one was easy to find, hence I knew the name of the artist but it was still difficult to find the Mm (found a zillion pots, though ) until it occurred to me to put "Giorgio Morandi landscapes" into Google Images.

So, it's Giorgio Morandi's "Patio en Via Fondazza," 1958.

http://arttattler.com/archivegiorgiomorandi.html
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That's it! I believe that his via Fondazza landscapes are of the view from his studio window but couldn't find confirmation of it.

The Scully work is "Wall of Night Sky". He wrote a nice essay (artcritical.com) on Morandi, the title of which he used for a book of his selected writings, Sean Scully: Resistance and Persistance (amazon). From it:

I was talking to a friend once on the ‘phone about a painting I had just finished. The painting is called “Wall of Light Sky”. She was asking me to describe it. After a few minutes I said, “look, I can describe it to you, by describing something that can’t really exist.” I told her, since it was made of many greys that were mixed in with pink and red and blue, that it was maybe like a Morandi on a giant scale that was drawn on a broken grid.
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The Scully work is "Wall of Night Sky".[/i]
Er, Wall of Light Sky.
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