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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 4, 2009 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art, Evening | 8 | $****** - ****** | La Meditazione Del Mattino |
paintings
52 x 70 cm (20.47 x 27.56 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Giorgio de Chirico and dated 1912 (lower right)
Arturo Tosi, Milan (acquired in 1921
until circa 1950). Riccardo & Magda Jucker, Milan (acquired circa 1950
until 1988). Private Collection, Lugano (inherited from the above). Private Collection. Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris. Acquired from the above.
Paris, Exposition d'œuvres de Giorgio de Chirico dans son atelier, 1913 Milan, Galleria d'Arte, Mostra personale del pittore Giorgio de Chirico, 1921, no. 5. Como, Villa Olmo, Mostra di pittura moderna Italiana a cura di A. Sartoris, 1936, no. 51 (titled Ricordo d'Italia). San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Contemporary Art - Golden Gate Exhibition, 1939, no. 14. Venice, Esposizione XXIV Biennale Internazionale d'arte Venezia, 1948. Zürich, Kunshaus, Futurismo e Pittura metafisica, 1950. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art Italien contemporain, 1950. Basel, Kunsthalle, Fantastische Kunst des XX Jahrhunderts, 1952. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Arte Italiana dal 1910 ad Oggi, 1957. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Giorgio di Chirico, 1967-68, no. 44. Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Giorgio de Chirico, 1979, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Giorgio De Chirico - 1888/1978, 1981-82, no. 5, illustrated in the catalogue. New York, Museum of Modern Art & London, The Tate Gallery, De Chirico, 1982, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue. Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Giorgio de Chirico, 1992-93. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Die andere Moderne - De Chirico, Savinio, 2001-02, no. 10, illustrated in color in the catalogue (as dating from 1911-12). Paris, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Giorgio de Chirico, La Fabrique des rêves, 2009, no. 15, illustrated in color in the catalogue.
Enrico Somaré, "Esposizioni di Milano. Mostra personale del pittore Giorgio de Chirico," Il Primato, Milan, March-April 1921, p. 31. Boris Ternovetz, Giorgio de Chirico, Milan, 1928, illustrated pl. 2. 'Giorgio de Chirico', in Selection. Chronique de la vie artistique, Antwerp, December 1929, vol. 8, illustrated p. 35. Giuseppe Maria Lo Duca, Giorgio de Chirico, Milan, 1936, illustrated pl. III. James Thrall Soby, The Early Chirico, New York, 1941, illustrated pl. 6 (as dating from 1910-12). Giuseppe Maria Lo Duca, Dipinti di Giorgio De Chirico: 1912-1932, Milan, 1945, illustrated pl. II (titled La Meditazione mattinale). Raffaele Carrieri, Pittura e Sculptura d'avanguardia in Italia, Milan, 1950. Gian Alberto dell'Acqua, "La peinture metaphysique," Cahiers d'art, no. 25, Paris, 1950, p. 123 James Thrall Soby, Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1955, illustrated in color p. 39. Marco Valsechhi, La Pittura Metafisica. De Chirico, Carra, Morandi, Milan, 1958. Isabella Far, De Chirico, New York, 1968, illustrated pl. 50. Patrick Waldberg, Giorgio de Chirico e la nascita della metafisica, Milan, 1968, no. 55. Isabella Far de Chirico & Domenico Porzio (eds.), Conoscere De Chirico. La vita e l'opera dell'inventore della pittura metafisica, Milan, 1979, no. 4, illustrated p. 16; illustrated in color p. 137; no. 13, illustrated p. 285 (titled Meditazione mattutina and as dating from 1910-11). Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Il tempo di Valori Plastici, 1980, no. 81, illustrated p. 58 William Rubin (ed.), De Chirico, New York, 1982, pl. 9, illustrated p. 138 Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, L'opera completa di De Chirico, 1908-1924, Milan, 1984, no. 17, illustrated p. 81 (illustration reversed) Paolo Baldacci, Giorgio De Chirico, 1888-1919. La metafisica, Milan, 1997, no. 15, illustrated in color p. 116 (as dating from winter 1911-12). Metafisica (exhibition catalogue), Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2003-04, illustrated p. 136.
