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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO , 1888 - 1978

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO_x000D_ 1888-1978_x000D_ _x000D_ Metaphysical mannequin, 1977_x000D_. Lithograph ex. 18/100_x000D_ cm. 52x35_x000D_ Signature and numbering on front_x000D_ On the back label "Il torchio di Porta Romana," Milan_x000D_ _x000D_ ORIGIN_x000D_ Private collection, Genoa

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GIORGIO DE CHIRICO , 1888 - 1978

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Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

GIORGO DE CHIRICO (Greece, 1888 - Rome, 1978). "Horses of the desert". Lithograph on paper, copy 29/80. Signed and numbered by hand. Measurements: 58 x 46 cm, (print), 68 x 56 cm (paper), 76 x 64 cm (frame). Italian painter born in Greece of Italian parents. De Chirico is known among other things for having founded the artistic movement scuola metafisica. He studied art in Athens and Florence before moving to Germany in 1906, where he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There he came into contact with the works of the philosophers Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer, as well as studying the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger. He returned to Italy in the summer of 1909 to spend six months in Milan. In early 1910 he moved to Florence again, where he painted The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon, the first of his works in the "Metaphysical Square" series, after a personal experience in Piazza Santa Croce. The following year de Chirico spent a few days in Turin on his way to Paris and was impressed by what he called "the metaphysical aspect of Turin" in the architecture of its arcades and piazzas. De Chirico lived in Paris until his enlistment in the army in May 1915, during the First World War. De Chirico's paintings from 1909 to 1914 are the ones that have brought him the greatest recognition. This period is known as the metaphysical period. The works are notable for the images that evoke sombre and overwhelming atmospheres. At the beginning of this period, the models were urban landscapes inspired by Mediterranean cities. Gradually, the painter's attention shifted to studies of rooms crammed with objects, sometimes inhabited by mannequins. Almost immediately, the writer Guillaume Apollinaire praised Chirico's work and helped introduce him to the group that would later devote itself to Surrealism. In 1922, Yves Tanguy wrote that he was so impressed when he saw a work by de Chirico in a gallery window that he decided to become an artist, even though he had never touched a paintbrush in his life. Other artists who have acknowledged Giorgio de Chirico's influence include Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. De Chirico is considered one of the major influences on the Surrealist movement. De Chirico later abandoned the metaphysical style and produced several more realistic works, with modest success. De Chirico published the novel "Hebdomeres" in 1925, which the poet John Ashbery has called probably one of the greatest literary works of surrealism. It has been translated into Spanish by César Aira and published in Argentina by Editorial Mansalva. The painter died in 1978 at the age of 90. Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical painting is considered one of the major antecedents of the Surrealist movement. During his stay in Germany he was influenced by symbolist authors and the philosophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Already in Paris (1911), he began to produce works with very surprising images, based on depicting urban spaces, in which architectural elements and the projection of shadows predominate and in which the human presence is usually absent. In addition to this architectural rule, there are also representations of interiors, generally open to the outside, where he usually places mannequins and sometimes other works (the representation of other works within the work itself, which is a characteristic of Surrealism, is already present in the author). In this way he manages to create in his works a strange, timeless space where it seems that calm and silence can be found.

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VOLUME MEMORIES OF CARLA ACCARDI containing two color lithographs by the Artist and a text by Giorgio De Dominicis. Exemplar 7/40 Measurements of the plates, cm. 29.5 x 21.5 Measurements of the sheets, cm. 38 x 28 Signature under the lithographs and at the end of the volume Fratelli Bulla Publisher

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