Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Totems: de Chirico / Man Ray
Auction Closed
October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD
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Totems: de Chirico / Man Ray
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
1888 - 1978
IL POMERIGGIO DI ARIANNA (ARIADNE’S AFTERNOON)
Signed G. de Chirico and dated 1913 (lower right)
Oil on canvas
53¼ by 25½ in.
135.3 by 64.6 cm
Painted in 1913.
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Galerie Surréaliste, Paris (acquired by 1926)
Galerie Vignon, Paris
Yvon Delbos, Paris (acquired by 1937 and until at least 1955)
Bernard Poissonier, Paris (acquired after 1955)
Galerie André-François Petit, Paris (acquired by 1968)
Galleria Galatea, Turin
Confinarte, Chiasso
Alain Tarica, Paris (acquired from the above in the late 1980s)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above on October 16, 1994)
Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner
La Révolution Surréaliste, no. 6, Paris, March 1, 1926, illustrated p. 1
André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Paris, 1928, p. 20
Giorgio de Chirico (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955, illustrated p. 179
James Thrall Soby, ed., Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1966, illustrated p. 179
Claudio Bruni, ed., Catologo Generale Giorgio de Chirico, opera dal 1908 al 1930, vol. II, Milan, 1972, no. 97, illustrated in the catalogue
William Rubin, ed., De Chirico, New York, 1982, illustrated p. 147
Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco & Paolo Baldacci, Giorgio de Chirico, Parigi 1924-1929: dalla nascita del Surrealismo al crollo di Wall Street, Milan, 1982, illustrated in a reproduction of La Révolution Surréaliste p. 204
Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, L’Opera complete di Giorgio de Chirico, 1908-1924, Milan, 1984, no. 30, illustrated p. 84 & in color pl. XA
Giorgio de Chirico, Arma Virumque Cano: il mito classic dell’eroe guerriero (exhibition catalogue), Azienda Autonoma di Cura e Soggiorno, Montecatini Terme, Italy, 1989, illustrated p. 29
Giorgio de Chirico all’epoca del Surrealismo (exhibition catalogue), Dream Gallery, Lugano, 1991, illustrated p. 30
Paolo Baldacci, De Chirico: The Metaphysical Period, 1888-1919, Boston, 1997, no. 33, detail illustrated p. 154 & the work illustrated in color p. 172
Giorgio de Chirico, Gli anni Trenta (exhibition catalogue), Galleria dello Scudo, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1998-99, illustrated in a photograph of the 1937 exhibition Origines et développment de l’art international independent at the Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris, p. 305
Giorgio de Chirico, la fabrique des rêves (exhibition catalogue), Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2009, illustrated in a photograph of the 1937 exhibition Origines et développment de l’art international independent at the Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris, p. 313
Paris, 115 Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Exposition d’oeuvres de Georgio de Chirico dans son atelier, 1913, n.n.
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Vignon & Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Giorgio de Chirico, 1931
Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Origines et développment de l’art international independent, 1937, no. 98
Geneva, Galerie Krugier, Jean Paulhan et ses environs, 1967, no. 33a
Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Obsessions et visions: Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Giorgio de Chirico, Miodrag Dado, Salvador Dali, Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, Felix Labisse, René Magritte, Marie Laure, Gustave Moreau, F. Musika, Richard Oelze, Pierre Roy, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning & Toyen, 1968 Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Giorgio de Chirico, 1970, no. 10, illustrated in color in the catalogue Bordeaux, Surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1971
Albuquerque, Museum of Albuquerque, Early Twentieth-Century European Masterpainters, 1977
Geneva, Musée Rath, Du Futurisme au spatialisme: peinture italienne de la première moitié du XXe siècle, 1977-78
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, La Pittura metafisica, 1979, no. 15
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery; Munich, Haus der Kunst & Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Giorgio de Chirico, 1982, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Geneva, Musée Rath & Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Regards sur le Minotaure: La Revue a tête de bête, 1987-88, no. 106
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, 1989, no. 44, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery & Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Surrealism, Revolution by night, 1993
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art & London, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne, 2003-03, no. 12, illustrated in color in the catalogue