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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 6, 2013 | Sotheby's | Paris | Art Impressionniste & Moderne | 11 | $****** - ****** | L'Enigma Della Partenza (L'enigme Du Départ) |
paintings
65.6 x 51 cm (25.83 x 20.08 in)
oil on canvas
signed G. de Chirico and inscribed 1916 (lower right)
Lee Ault, New York
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Mrs H. Jason, Freeport, Long Island (acquired from the above on 27th June 1949)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s
Basel, ArtBasel, Galerie Jan Krugier, 1975, n.n. Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot & Galerie de Seine, Le Musée volé, 1979, n.n. Paris, Artcurial, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, 1986, no. 62 Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Regards sur Minotaure, 1987-88, no. 108 Milan, Palazzo Reale & Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, I Surrealisti, 1989, n.n. Paris, Artcurial, André Pieyre de Mandiargues et l'art du XXème siècle, 1990, n.n. Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Man Ray et ses amis, 1991, no. 167 Paris, Galerie Thessa Herold, Henri Michaux, le langage du peintre, le regard du poète, 1994, no. 46 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gaceta de Arte y su epoca 1932-1936, 1997, n.n. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Giorgio de Chirico, La fabrique des rêves, 2009, no. 46 Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Dada e Surrealismo riscoperti, 2009, n.n. Saint-Louis (Alsace), Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet-Branca, Chassé-Croisé Dada-Surréaliste 1916-1969, 2012, n.n.
René Passeron (ed.), Encyclopédie du Surréalisme, Paris, 1975, illustrated p. 137; Dictionnaire Général du Surréalisme et de ses environs, Paris, 1982, illustrated p. 220; Jean Leymarie, Méditerranée, Sources et formes du XXème siècle, Paris, 1988, illustrated p. 101; Beaux Arts, Paris, April 1988, no. 56, illustrated n.p.; Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, De Chirico gli anni trenta, Rome, 1991, no. 45, illustrated p. 334; Georges Sebbag, Memorabilia, Constellations inaperçues, Dada & Surréalisme 1916-1970, Paris, 2010, illustrated p. 271; Georges Sebbag, Potence avec paratonnerre - Surréalisme et philosophie, Paris, 2012, illustrated on the cover
