ID 1399717
Lot 833 | GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978)
Estimate value
CNY 2 200 000 – 3 200 000
Sgombero su piazza d’Italia
signed and dated 'G. de Chirico 1958' (lower left)
oil on canvas
60 x 90 cm. (23 5/8 x 35 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1968
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Farsettiarte, Prato, 26 May 2007, lot 721
Private collection, acquired in 2008; sale, Christie's Shanghai, 21 September 2018, lot 317
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico (ed.), Giorgio de Chirico, Catalogo generale, vol. 3, Opere dal 1913 al 1976, Rome, 2016, no. 1324, pp. 177 & 469 (illustrated p. 367).
Exhibited
Museo Nazionale di Reggio Calabria, Omaggio a Giorgio de Chirico, December 1972 - January 1973, no. 13 (illustrated; dated '1952').
Kamakura, Museum of Modern Art, De Chirico presenta de Chirico, November – December 1973, no. 32; this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Central Art Museum, January 1974; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, February – March 1974; and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, March – April 1974, no. 32 (illustrated; dated 1958)
São Paulo, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura Marilisa Rathsam, Giorgio de Chirico, Pinturas e esculturas, March - April 1998, no. 75, p. 132 (illustrated; dated '1958')
Further details
The Fondazione de Chirico has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is recorded in the archives under the number 65/7/01.
| Artist: | Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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