G. De Chirico Litograph Italy 1970

Self-Portrait 1970

Code :  ARARCO0179276

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G. De Chirico Litograph Italy 1970

Self-Portrait 1970

Code :  ARARCO0179276

not available

G. De Chirico Litograph Italy 1970 - Self-Portrait 1970

Features

Self-Portrait 1970

Artist:  Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)

Artwork title:  Autoritratto

Age:  Contemporary , 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Portrait/Face

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Multiple Print

Technical specification:  Lithography

Description : Autoritratto

Color litograph. At the bottom right the pencil signature, on the left the serial number 72/110 and the embossed stamp of the printer Alberto Caprini; the title is in the center. The great master initiator of the Metaphysical art, painted numerous self-portraits, to depict him in different phases and ages of life, in different costumes and different backgrounds, which also testify to the different pictorial phases that the artist went through. This self-portrait, which sees him ironically portraying himself as a 17th-century gentleman, belongs to the late age period in which he returned to classical painting and realism with a 17th-century effect. The work is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in very good condition which may show slight traces of wear; it may have undergone restoration work carried out by an expert. We try to present the real state as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 93,5
Width: 77
Depth: 4

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 52,5
Width: 70

Additional Information

Artist: Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)

Born in Volos (Greece) in 1888, son of a railway engineer, Giorgio De Chirico first lived in Athens, where he studied at the local polytechnic, then, in 1905, he moved with his mother and brother Andrea (known under the pseudonym Alberto Savinio) in Munich, where in 1906 he began to work in the city academy under Klinger. Deeply impressed by the art of A. Böcklin and the philosophy of Nietzsche, he began to paint allegorical pictures. In 910 he made a trip to Florence, where he painted the Enigma of the oracle and the Enigma of an autumn afternoon, the first works in which the symbolic possibilities of dreams are revealed, in which real objects find themselves in unnatural relationships and unusual, set within a suspended atmosphere. From 1911 to 1915 he was in Paris, where he met Apollinaire, Jacob, Picasso. Back in Italy, where he did his military service during the war, De Chirico became with Carlo Carrà the initiator of "metaphysical" painting, aimed at creating fantastic suggestions with the juxtaposition of disparate objects and especially ancient statues in a space built according to the rules of fifteenth-century perspective, but lit by decidedly modern colours, with astonishing associations not only of senses and ideas, but also of history and time. In 1925 he returned briefly to Paris, at the dawn of surrealism; but he had already oriented himself, in various decorations of Roman villas, towards an openly romantic painting, abandoning the severe rigor of "metaphysical" painting. He then moved on to recalling classical motifs (horses by the sea, gladiators, etc.); he then turned to a seventeenth-century inspired realism of effect. There are also numerous self-portraits, in which De Chirico represents himself through celebratory or deliberately ironic paintings. The love for metaphysical painting once again asserted itself in his last works, confirming De Chirico's desire to reveal the mystery of existence through the fascination of his paintings. Giorgio De Chirico was also a set designer, he wrote a novel (Hebdomeros, 1930) and an autobiography (1945). In recent times he had taken a polemical stance against contemporary art. De Chirico died in Rome in 1978.

Age:

Contemporary

Contemporary

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Portrait/Face

Artistic technique: Multiple Print

Technical specification: Lithography

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