Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

David Zwirner is pleased to present Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation. Curated by art historian and Morandi scholar Dr. Alice Ensabella and organized in collaboration with the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, the exhibition will feature more than fifty works from across the revered artist’s six-decade career, all on loan from the Foundation located in Mamiano di Traversetolo, Italy. This exhibition will be one of the largest in New York to focus on Morandi’s work since Giorgio Morandi: 1890–1964, the artist’s 2008 retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It follows and builds on celebrated institutional presentations of the Foundation’s collection of works by Morandi at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, in 2023, and at Musée de Grenoble in 2021.

This singular group of works by Morandi (1890–1964) is one of the largest and most important collections of paintings and works on paper by the Italian master. It was assembled in close collaboration with Morandi over more than twenty years by the musicologist, art historian, and collector Luigi Magnani (1906–1984), who, after meeting Morandi for the first time in 1940, became one of the notoriously reclusive artist’s closest friends.