New York. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 1997. Hardbound cloth w. dust jacket. Book Condition: Fine w. bump on bottom corner. Book Jacket: Very fine. 130pp.

This volume presents the work of this private and enigmatic twentieth-century Bolognese artist. Influenced by the work of Giotto, as well a Cézanne, the metaphysical painters, and the cubists, Morandi's work defies any label. His still-lifes and landscapes are serene groupings of muted objects, yet Morandi provokes a tension between them which speaks of spacial relationships, negative space, and the nuance of light and color. His paintings seem to exist in a world outside of time, luminous and full of mysterious life.