Giorgio de Chirico, 1888 Volos - 1978 Rom

Giorgio de Chirico,
1888 Volos - 1978 Rome

PIAZZA D’ITALIA

Oil on canvas.
40 x 50 cm.
Signed and dated “1972” lower right.

Accompanied by a photographic certificate by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, n.d. or place, in copy and a confirmation from the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome.

The artist was an Italian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He is considered the main representative of “Pittura Metafisica”, so-called metaphysical painting, considered one of the most important precursors of surrealism. The subject of the Piazza d’Italia is one of the central subjects of Giorgio de Chirico, the most important representative of Pittura Metafisica. The mysterious pictures mostly show deserted squares in Italian cities in an almost ghostly tranquillity as is characteristic for de Chirico’s metaphysical painting.

After taking the photograph that was later used for the Catalogo Generale, Giorgio de Chirico carried out two retouchings in black, one on the shadow of the monument to the hero of the Risorgimento, the other on the shadow of the two men.

Literature:
The present work is depicted in: Catalogo Generale Giorgio de Chirico, opere dal 1951 al 1974, no. 794.