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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 11, 2012 | Christie's | London | The Italian Sale | 95 | $****** - ****** | Piazza d'Italia (Mercurio e i metafisici) |
paintings
56 x 76.2 cm (22.05 x 30 in)
oil and tempera on canvas
signed 'G. de Chirico' (lower left)
Valori Plastici collection, Rome. Alfredo Casella, Florence, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Milan, Galleria Arte, Mostra personale del pittore Giorgio de Chirico, 1921, no. 21. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Italian Art, 1949, p. 129. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, Arte Moderna in Italia 1915-1935, 1967, no. 941, p. XXXIV. Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Le muse inquietanti: maestri del Surrealismo, 1967 - 1968, no. 148. Bochum, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Italienische Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, 1968; this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1968. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Cento opere dal futurismo ad oggi, 1968 - 1969, no. 17, p. 52 (illustrated p. 53). Milan, Palazzo Reale, Giorgio de Chirico, 1970, no. 44, p. 29 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft in der Orangerie Herrenhausen, 1970, no.46, p. 65 (illustrated). Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Hommage à Giorgio de Chirico, Paris, 1975, pl. 8 (illustrated). Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Les réalismes 1919-1939, 1980 - 1981, p. 67 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1981. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, De Chirico, 1982, pl. 80; this exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Gallery, 1982. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Giorgio de Chirico der Metaphysiker, 1982 - 1983, no. 60, p. 192 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1983. Verona, Palazzo Forti and Galleria dello Scudo, De Chirico: gli anni Venti, 1986 - 1987, p. 60 (illustrated p. 61); this exhibition later travelled to Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1987. Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, Tilbakevending til orden og gjennopptagelsen av malerkunsten: den figurative kontinuitet i italiensk malerkunst 1920-1987, 1988, no. 6; this exhibition later travelled to Helsinki, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, 1988. Venice, Museo Correr, De Chirico nel centenario della nascita, 1988 - 1989, no. 33, p. 204, (illustrated pl. 36). London, Tate Gallery, On Classic Ground. Picasso, Léger, De Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930, 1990, no. 33, p. 76 (illustrated p. 77). Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, L'idea del classico 1916-1932, 1992, p. 209. Tokyo, Garden Museum of Fine Art, De Chirico, 1920-1950, 1993, no. 10, p. 122 (illustrated p. 46); this exhibition later travelled to Osaka, Nabio Bijutsukan, 1993, and Hiroshima, Fukuyama Museum of Art, 1993. New York, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, Giorgio de Chirico. Betraying the Muse: De Chirico and the Surrealists, 1994, no. 8, p. 144 (illustrated p. 145). Basel, Kunstmuseum, Canto d'Amore. Klassizistische Moderne in Musik und bildender Kunst 1914-1935, 1996, no. 15. Padova, Palazzo Zabarella, De Chirico, 2007, no. 46, p. 164 (illustrated). Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Giorgio de Chirico: Werke 1909-1971 aus Schweizer Sammlungen, 2008, no. 23 (illustrated p. 79).
P. Courthion & A. Bardi, Sélection: chronique de la vie artistique. Giorgio de Chirico, Antwerp, 1929, no. 8, p. 55 (illustrated). Civiltà. Rivista trimestrale della Esposizione universale di Roma, no. 3, Milan, 1940, (illustrated on the cover). I. Far, Giorgio de Chirico, Milan, 1968, pl. 45. C. Bruni, Catalogo generale Giorgio de Chirico, opere dal 1908 al 1930, vol. I, Milan, 1971, no. 46 (illustrated; dated 1921). G. Legrand, Giorgio de Chirico, Paris, 1975, p. 32. I classici della pittura, Rome, 1978, no. 18, pl. 10. I. Far de Chirico & D. Porzio, Conoscere de Chirico: la vita e l'opera dell'inventore della pittura metafisica, Milan, 1979, no. 91, p. 290 (illustrated p. 177). M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, Giorgio de Chirico. "Le rêve de Tobie" 1917: un interno ferrarese e le origini del surrealismo, Rome, 1980, no. 41, p. 46. W. Schmied, A. Jouffroy, M. Fagiolo dell'Arco & D. Porzio, De Chirico. Leben und Werk, Munich, 1980, no. 91, p. 290 (illustrated p. 177). M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, Giorgio de Chirico, il tempo di "Valori Plastici" 1918-1922, Rome, 1980, no. 91, p. 60 (illustrated p. 61). M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, "Speciale de Chirico", in Catalogo Nazionale Bolaffi d'Arte Moderna, no. 15, Milan, 1980, no. 2, pp. 83-84. M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, L'opera completa di de Chirico 1908-1924, Milan, 1984, no. 160, pp. 107-108. M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, I bagni misteriosi. De Chirico negli anni Trenta: Parigi, Italia, New York, Milan, 1991, no. 4 (illustrated p. 179). Exh. cat., Die Andere Moderne: De Chirico, Savinio, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2001-2002, p. 94 (illustrated). W. Schmied, Giorgio de Chirico: the endless journey, Munich, 2002, p. 96 (illustrated). M. Valsecchi, Immagini di arte italiana: Giorgio de Chirico, Milan, n.d., pl. 5.
