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Giorgio de Chirico
Description
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Accampamento romano in riva al mare
- Signed G. de Chirico (lower right)
- Oil on canvas
- 25 5/8 by 36 1/4 in.
- 65.1 by 92.1 cm
Provenance
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Although his turning to Neoclassicism and away from Surrealism was partly influenced by the rappel à l'ordre prevalent in the years after World War I, de Chirico painted in a highly individual and innovative manner, creating one of the most original bodies of work in twentieth-century art. According to James Thrall Soby, there were three principal factors underlying de Chirico's oeuvre of this period: "The first of these was his absorption in the art of the past, stimulated by his postwar studies in the great museums of Rome and Florence and by his discussions with Nicola Lochoff. The second may well have been his regard for Picasso who, beginning in 1917, had alternately painted classical-realistic pictures and abstract works. Picasso's neo-classic paintings and drawings undoubtedly were known to de Chirico... A third factor, accounting in good part for de Chirico's 1925-28 paintings of ancient ruins, gladiators and wild horses, was his enthusiasm for Sir James George Frazer's travel account of classical Greece, published in French in 1923 as Sur les Traces de Pausanias" (James Thrall Soby, Giorgio de Chirico, New York, 1966, p. 162).