About This Artwork
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian, born Greece, 1888–1978
Warriors and Philosophers, 1928
Oil on panel
27 11/16 x 23 3/16 in. (70.3 x 58.9 cm)
Signed, u.l. of center: "G. de Chirico"
Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham, 1954.305
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, chez Mr. Léonce Rosenberg, Exposition d’oeuvres de Giorgio de Chirico, May 6–30, 1925, cat. 10, as Guerriers romains.
Chicago, Arts Club, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9–31, 1936, cat. 9, as Warriors.
Publication History
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 118.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 37, cat. 1D7, as Classical Figures, c. 1923–28.
Ownership History
Leonce Rosenberg, Paris, by 1928 [Rosenberg Archives]. Valentine Gallery, New York, before November 1930 [label on verso]. Joseph Winterbotham, Chicago, by December 1936 [Chicago 1936]; bequeathed to his son, Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Burlington, Vt.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.