Lot No. 1123


Giorgio de Chirico *


Giorgio de Chirico * - Modern Art

(Volos, Greece 1888–1978 Rome)
Piazza d’Italia, 1959, signed G. de Chirico, verso titled by the artist, Piazza d’Italia con Monumento al colonnello Missori with confirmation of authenticity from a notary, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, framed, (PP)

Photo certificate:
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, 11.4.1978, no. 34/78

Provenance:
Galleria Bergamini, Milan (verso stamp)
Galleria Sianesi, Milan (verso stamp)
Galleria Cafiso, Milan
Private Collection, Rome

Literature:
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Giorgio De Chirico, Catalogo Generale, Edizione Electa, Milan, 1987, vol. 8, part 3, no. 1226 with ill.

“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, beyond a lonely piazza, a train chugs alongside loggias, porticos, and monuments from the past (…) or a soaring factory chimney sends smoke into the cloudless sky…”
(Ardengo Soffici, ‘De Chirico e Savinio’, in Lacerba, 1 July 1914)

Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386

patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at

22.05.2014 - 19:00

Estimate:
EUR 220,000.- to EUR 280,000.-

Giorgio de Chirico *


(Volos, Greece 1888–1978 Rome)
Piazza d’Italia, 1959, signed G. de Chirico, verso titled by the artist, Piazza d’Italia con Monumento al colonnello Missori with confirmation of authenticity from a notary, oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, framed, (PP)

Photo certificate:
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, 11.4.1978, no. 34/78

Provenance:
Galleria Bergamini, Milan (verso stamp)
Galleria Sianesi, Milan (verso stamp)
Galleria Cafiso, Milan
Private Collection, Rome

Literature:
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Giorgio De Chirico, Catalogo Generale, Edizione Electa, Milan, 1987, vol. 8, part 3, no. 1226 with ill.

“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, beyond a lonely piazza, a train chugs alongside loggias, porticos, and monuments from the past (…) or a soaring factory chimney sends smoke into the cloudless sky…”
(Ardengo Soffici, ‘De Chirico e Savinio’, in Lacerba, 1 July 1914)

Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy Mag. Patricia Pálffy
+43-1-515 60-386

patricia.palffy@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Modern Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 22.05.2014 - 19:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 10.05. - 22.05.2014

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