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Property of a Gentleman

Giorgio de Chirico

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