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Giorgio de Chirico
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description
- Giorgio de Chirico
- PIAZZA D'ITALIA
- signed g. de Chirico (lower left); signed Giorgio de Chirico and inscribed questa pittura metafisica: "Piazza d'Italia" è opera autentica, da me eseguita e firmata on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 40 by 50cm.; 15 3/4 by 19 5/8 in.
Provenance
Gallery Reese Palley, Atlantic City
Charles Stein, Baltimore
Private Collection, USA (sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2007, lot 369)
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Charles Stein, Baltimore
Private Collection, USA (sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2007, lot 369)
Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Valladolid, Museo de la Pasión, De Picasso a Richard Serra. 20 años de la Galería Guillermo de Osma, 2011, illustrated in colour in the catalogue p. 41
Condition
The canvas is unlined. Apart from a spot of retouching to the sky in the upper left corner, a small area of retouching to the white pigment of the building on the left, some intermittent retouchings to the extreme framing edges, and a few further scattered specks of retouching, all visible under ultra-violet light, this work is in good condition.
Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although brighter and fresher in the original.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
‘Giorgio de Chirico expresses as no one else has done the poignant melancholy of the close of a beautiful day in an old Italian city where, at the back of a lonely piazza, beyond the setting of loggias, porticos, and monuments to the past, a train chugs […] or a soaring factory chimney sends smoke into the cloudless sky.’
Ardengo Soffici, ‘De Chirico e Savinio’, in Lacerba, 1st July 1914, translated from the Italian