Venezia

细节

Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)
Venezia
signed 'G. de Chirico' (lower right)
oil on canvasboard
19½ x 23½ in. (49.5 x 59.7 cm.)
Painted in 1953

来源

Edward Tohari, Cape Coral, Florida.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 423.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1990.

出版

C. Bruni Sakraischik, Catalogo Generale Giorgio de Chirico, opere dal 1951 al 1974***, Milan, 1974, vol. 5, no. 667 (illustrated).

荣誉呈献

Stefany Sekara Morris

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拍品专文

The Venetian masters Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto were a constant source of inspiration for de Chirico: "In the corrupt and degenerate age in which he found himself de Chirico saw himself as a man with a mission to fill... the preservation, or rather restoration, of the dignity of painting, the reestablishment of a respect and love for the old masters and values they represent" (S. McKenna, Late de Chirico 1940-76, exh. cat., Bristol, 1985, pp. 11-12). The artist first visited Venice in 1905 and throughout his career he exhibited his paintings at the Venice Biennale. These sojourns provided him with the opportunity to study the city's distinctive architecture and wealth of old masters at length.