De Pisis and Montale, the painter-poet and the poet-painter, are two of the great names in twentieth-century Italian and Mediterranean culture. Friends from their youth (1920) and for the rest of their lives. A timeline of their friendship nurtured among seascapes; a constant dialogue between the painter of the universally renowned Marine Still Lifes and the Nobellaureate
poet of Cuttlefish Bones and Occasions. 45 paintings by De Pisis, 40 small works painted by Montale and previously unexhibited documents of their friendship.

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