
Property of a Gentleman
Il vaticinatore
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Giorgio de Chirico
1888 - 1978
Il vaticinatore
signed g. de Chirico (lower right); inscribed questa pittura metafisica é opera autentica da me esguita e firmata Giorgio de Chirico (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
49.8 by 39.6 cm. 19 ⅝ by 15 ⅝ in.
Framed: 74.9 by 64.7 cm. 29 ½ by 25 ½ in.
Executed in 1950.
Galleria La Bussola, Turin
Mario Valentino, Naples (acquired from the above in 1983)
Private Collection, Italy (acquired by descent from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 26 February 2019, lot 45 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Turin, Galleria La Bussola, Alberto Savinio e Giorgio de Chirico, 1964, n.n., illustrated
Turin, Galleria La Bussola, Giorgio de Chirico ieri e oggi, 1968, no. 2, illustrated
Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Catalogo generale Giorgio De Chirico, vol. 4, Venice, 1971-76, no. 350, illustrated
Isabella Far de Chirico and Domenico Porzio (eds.), Conoscere de Chirico. La vita e l'opera dell'inventore della pittura metafisica, Milan, 1979, no. 245, p. 297, illustrated
Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco and Paolo Baldacci, Giorgio de Chirico, I temi della metafisica, 1985, no. 27, illustrated (as dating from circa 1940)
Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, I Bagni Misteriosi. De Chirico negli anni trenta: Parigi, Italia, New York, Milan, 1991, no. 57, p. 338, illustrated
Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco, Giorgio de Chirico, Gli anni Trenta, Milan, 1995, no. 57, p. 338, illustrated