In October a Facebook friend, Isreal Hershberg, posted an album of photos of Morandi's studio in Bologna,  Italy. The house in Via Fondazza 36, in which Giorgio Morandi lived and worked from 1910 to 1964, opened to the public October 17, 2009.Morandi lived with his three unmarried sisters in a dingy apartment in the northern Italian town.  He was unmarried and a loner, perhaps even suffering from agoraphobia. His bedroom was his studio. In this hermetic world, each painting took up to two months to complete.

In reading in The Art Newspaper about the recent restoration of a late Henry Moore sculpture in Berlin, I was reminded of a trip I made to his studio in Perry Green, Herts, about 20 miles north of London in the late 1970s. Moore was still alive. His property was dotted with temporary greenhouse-like buildings made of wood and plastic.London, Berlin,