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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 | 34 | $****** - ****** | Nudo |
paintings
70.8 x 54.7 cm (27.87 x 21.54 in)
oil on canvas
signed G. de Chirico (upper right)
Paul Guillaume, Paris
René Gaffé, Brussels (acquired by 1934)
Sir Roland Penrose CBE, London (acquired from the above through E.L.T. Mesens on 15 July 1937)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired by 1955)
Galleria Galatea, Turin
Galleria Levi, Milan (acquired by 1974)
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York and London
The Mayor Gallery, London
Acquired from the above on 12 June 1985 by the present owner
Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d"Automne , 1913, no. 402
Paris, 115 Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Exposition d"œuvres de Giorgio de Chirico dans son atelier, 1913
Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, Chirico , 1926, no. 32, n.p. (titled Étude )
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Giorgio de Chirico , 1930, no. 2 (titled Akstudie (Zeichnung) and dated 1910)
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Chirico-Picasso, 1937, no. 2, n.p. (titled Nu au cheveux noirs and dated 1912)
London, London Gallery, Giorgio de Chirico , 1938, no. 1, p. 13 (dated 1912)
Ferrara, Palazzo Massari, La Metafisica: Museo documentario , 1981, no. 19, p. 163 (titled Studio )
James Thrall Soby, Giorgio de Chirico , 1955, pp. 38, 48 and 50; p. 167, illustrated (titled Nude (Etude) and dated 1911-12)
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Catalogo Generale, Giorgio De Chirico , opere dal 1908 al 1930 , vol. V, Milan, 1974, no. 297, n.p., illustrated
Maurizio Fagiolo Dell"Arco, L"opera completa di De Chirico, 1908-1924 , Rome, 1984, no. 37, p. 86, illustrated (titled Étude (studio) Nu au cheveux noirs and dated 1913)
Paolo Baldacci, De Chirico, 1888-1919, La metafisica , Milan, 1997, no. 27, p. 151, illustrated; p. 165, illustrated in colour (titled Nu (aux cheveux noirs) (Nudo) and dated 1913)
Exh. Cat., Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, De Chirico: gli anni Trenta , 1998-99, no. 2, p. 304 (titled Nu aux cheveux noirs and dated 1912)
Gerd Roos, Giorgio de Chirico e Alberto Savinio: Ricordi e Documenti - Monaco, Milano, Firenze 1906-1911 , Bologna, 1999, no. 56, p. 385 (titled Étude (studio) Nu au cheveux noirs and dated 1913)
Exh. Cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Die Andere Moderne - De Chirico/Savinio , 2001, no. 22, p. 74, illustrated (titled Rückenakt (mit schwarzem Haar) and dated 1913)
Victoria Noel-Johnson, De Chirico and the United Kingdom (c. 1916 - 1978) , San Marino, 2017, p. 71, illustrated; pp. 60, 68, 302 and 309 (titled Nu [aux cheveux noirs] and dated 1912-13)
Exh. Cat., Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Giorgio de Chirico, aux origines du surréalisme belge. Magritte-Delvaux-Graverol , 2019, no. 3, p. 58, illustrated in colour (titled Nu [aux cheveux noirs] and dated 1912-13); p. 66
Victoria Noel-Johnson, “De Chirico in the René Gaffé Collection & the Role of E.L.T Mesens (Brussels - London),” Metaphysical Art, no. 19/20, 2020, fig. 6, p. 46, illustrated in colour (titled Nu [au chevaux noirs] and dated 1912-13); pp. 63, 68 and 77
Giorgio de Chirico
1888 - 1978
Nudo
signed G. de Chirico (upper right)
oil on canvas
70.8 by 54.7 cm. 27⅞ by 21⅝ in.
Executed in 1911.
Formerly in the collections of René Gaffé and Roland Penrose.
