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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction | 22 | $****** - ****** | La Guerra (The War) |
paintings
34.1 x 26.8 cm (13.43 x 10.55 in)
oil on canvas
signed G. de Chirico (centre right)
Paul Guillaume, Paris
(possibly) André Breton, Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
Gordon Onslow Ford, Mill Valley, California and New York (acquired from the above in 1940-41 and until at least 1955)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired by 1957)
William N. Copley, Paris and New York
Sotheby"s, New York, The William N. Copley Collection , 5 November 1979, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1979 by the present owner
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition , 1978
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and London, Tate Gallery, De Chirico, 1982-83, pl. 63, pp. 66, 119, 124 and 177, illustrated (dated 1916)
Munich, Haus der Kunst and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Giorgio de Chirico der Metaphysiker , 1982-83, no. 45, p. 176, illustrated (dated 1916)
André Breton, “Second Manifeste du surréalisme,” La Revolution surréaliste , vol. 5, no. 12, 15 December 1929, n.n., p. 17, illustrated
E.L.T. Mesens, ed., London Bulletin , nos. 18-19-20, June 1940, illustrated in colour on the cover (dated 1915)
James Thrall Soby, The Early Chirico , New York, 1941, no. 49, p. xi, illustrated (dated 1915)
James Thrall Soby, “De Chirico: case history of the metaphysician,” ArtNEWS , vol. 54, no. 5, September 1955, p. 34, illustrated (dated 1916)
James Thrall Soby, Giorgio di Chirico , New York, 1955, pp. 11, 111 and 217, illustrated (dated 1916)
Maurizio Fagiolo Dell"Arco, L"opera completa di De Chirico 1908-1924 , Milan, 1984, no. 95, p. 97, illustrated (incorrectly catalogued and dated 1916)
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik , Catalogo Generale Giorgio de Chirico, opere dal 1908 al 1930 , vol. VIII, Milan, 1987, no. 470, n.p., illustrated
Jacqueline Chenieux-Gendron, Françoise Le Roux and Maïté Vienne, Le Surréalisme autour du monde, 1929-1947: Inventaire analytique de revues surréalistes ou apparentées , Paris, 1994, p. 136 (dated 1915)
Paolo Baldacci, De Chirico, 1888-1919, La metafisica , Milan, 1997, no. 102, p. 320, illustrated in colour (dated 1916)
Giorgio de Chirico
1888 - 1978
La Guerra (The War)
signed G. de Chirico (centre right)
oil on canvas
34.1 by 26.8 cm. 13⅜ by 10½ in.
Executed in 1916-17.
Formerly in the collections of André Breton, Gordon Onslow Ford and William N. Copley.
