Paolo Baldacci

First edition in English of Baldacci’s massive survey of de Chirico’s early life and works.

• Paolo Baldacci (Italian).
• Translated by Jeffrey Jennings (American).
• Boston: Bullfinch Press & Little, Brown and Company, 1997.
• 444 pages.
• Bound in original blue cloth with original unclipped ($95.00) dust jacket.

Monograph on the period from Giorgio de Chirico’s birth through February 1919, the “date of Roberto Longhi’s savage criticism of his first solo exhibition at the Bragaglia Gallery, and as such the first clear manifestation of the Italian art world’s rejection of the ‘ideology’ inherent in Metaphysical art.” Remains an important reference. “The recurring images of this period speak most eloquently of de Chirico’s concerns: solid architecture defined by alternating light and shadow, statues of philosophers turned toward the horizon, living men straddling the lines of mysterious grids, and everywhere the voice of the sea and the sails of the ‘seekers of enigma.’"