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Giorgio de Chirico © (1888 - 1978)
Nudo, 1930
Signed G. de Chirico top right
Oil on canvas
cm 81x65
On the reverse: autograph signature of the artist authenticated by Notary Nocera, dated Milan June 8th 1962
Provenance:
Literature:
Giorgio De Chirico. Works from 1908 to 1930, General Catalogue, curated by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Electa Editrice, Milan, 1987, vol. V, no. 350;
Exhibitions:
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«Each object has two aspects: the common aspect, which is what is generally seen, and that everyone sees, and the spiritual and metaphysical aspect, which only a few individuals can see, in moments of clairvoyance or metaphysical meditation. The work of art must recall an aspect that does not manifest itself in the visible form of the represented object». (Giorgio de Chirico)
In the oil on canvas of 1930 proposed here, published in the "General Catalogue of works from 1908 to 1930" by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, de Chirico portrays a female nude with perfectly delineated and sculpted forms within a landscape on which several classical elements from mythological references are found. The scenery is that of a beach characterized by the presence of fragments of classic white columns and where, behind a small hill in the background, you can see the profile of a temple. The work is of undoubted pictorial quality, so that it has been in numerous important collections already from the year following its realization and exhibited in several exhibitions held at historical galleries such as the Galleria Milano, the Galleria Genova, the Galleria La Bussola, the Galleria La Medusa and also in the recent exhibition of Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 2019, boasting a rich and prestigious bibliographic curriculum.
Provenance:
Galleria Milano, Milan, as per label on the reverse;
Galleria Genova, Genoa, as per label on the reverse;
Collezione Carletto Gussoni, as per label on the reverse;
Galleria Alessandro Gazzo, Bergamo, as per label on the reverse;
Galleria La Bussola, Turin, as per label on the reverse;
Galleria La Medusa, Rome, as per newspaper clipping on the reverse;
Galleria Sangallo, Florence, as reported in the General Catalogue curated by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik;
Private collection, Florence
Literature:
Giorgio De Chirico. Works from 1908 to 1930, General Catalogue, curated by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Electa Editrice, Milan, 1987, vol. V, no. 350;
de Chirico, Galleria Milano, Milan, 1931, no. 643;
Homage to De Chirico. Works from 1912 to 1934, Galleria La Medusa, Rome, October 1966, no. 60;
Homage to De Chirico, L'Eco della stampa, November 1966;
Giorgio de Chirico. The 30s, curated by Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Skira Editore, Milan, 1995, p. 72, no. 14;
Twentieth Century, Tensions and Figure, exhibition catalogue curated by Fabio Migliorati, Forma Edizioni, Poggibonsi, 2012, pp. 48-49;
Modern and Contemporary Masters. Selected Anthology 2013, p. 91;
Art Outside the Regime. Twentieth Century Nude, exhibition catalogue curated by Guido Cribiori, Studiolo 93, Milan, 2013, no. 21;
Giorgio de Chirico. The Face of Metaphysics, curated by Victoria Noel-Johnson, Skira, Milan, 2019, p. 166, no. 65;
Morandi, Balla, de Chirico and Italian Painting 1920 - 1950, exhibition catalogue with introductory text by Flavia Frigeri, Tornabuoni Art, London, 2020, p. 69;
Modern and Contemporary Art. Selected Anthology 2023, Florence p. 86;
Giorgio de Chirico, Rome, 2024, pp. 15, 51
Exhibitions:
de Chirico, Galleria Milano, Milan, April - May 1931;
Carlo Carrà, Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Ottone Rosai, Galleria del Fiore, Florence, 1942;
Homage to De Chirico. Works from 1912 to 1934, Galleria La Medusa, Rome, October 1966;
Twentieth Century, Tensions and Figure, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, March - May 2012;
Oratorio di Santa Caterina, Bagno a Ripoli (Florence), September - October 2012;
Reading de Chirico, Tornabuoni Art, London, October 2017 - January 2018;
Giorgio De Chirico, the Face of Metaphysics, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, March - September 2019;
Morandi, Balla, de Chirico and Italian Painting 1920 - 1950, Tornabuoni Art, London, February - September 2020;
La Métaphysique du rêve, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, September - October 2024
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«Each object has two aspects: the common aspect, which is what is generally seen, and that everyone sees, and the spiritual and metaphysical aspect, which only a few individuals can see, in moments of clairvoyance or metaphysical meditation. The work of art must recall an aspect that does not manifest itself in the visible form of the represented object». (Giorgio de Chirico)
Giorgio de Chirico (Volos, 1888 - Rome, 1978), an erudite painter, refined intellectual, great connoisseur and admirer of Italian Renaissance art, is universally recognized as the father of Metaphysical painting. The artworks executed by the "Pictor optimus", as de Chirico was then defined, are characterized by a strong dreamlike atmosphere and countless references to classical mythology, which influenced the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, Surrealism in particular and all the subsequent artistic production.
The decade between 1930 and 1940 represented for the artist’s story a season rich in intuitions rendered with an extraordinary expressive capacity. Right from the thirties, a period of the artist’s production in great appreciation on the international market, de Chirico began to paint nudes, especially female subjects. The female figure is a beloved and often present subject in de Chirico’s art, it refers to a sense of abandonment and mystery, typical of his metaphysical painting, and is frequently associated with the myth of Ariadne, one of the great themes of Dechirichic painting.
In the oil on canvas of 1930 proposed here, published in the "General Catalogue of works from 1908 to 1930" by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, de Chirico portrays a female nude with perfectly delineated and sculpted forms within a landscape on which several classical elements from mythological references are found. The scenery is that of a beach characterized by the presence of fragments of classic white columns and where, behind a small hill in the background, you can see the profile of a temple. The work is of undoubted pictorial quality, so that it has been in numerous important collections already from the year following its realization and exhibited in several exhibitions held at historical galleries such as the Galleria Milano, the Galleria Genova, the Galleria La Bussola, the Galleria La Medusa and also in the recent exhibition of Palazzo Ducale in Genoa in 2019, boasting a rich and prestigious bibliographic curriculum.
€ 280.000,00 / 350.000,00
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