Untitled

c. 1926

Giorgio de Chirico
Italian, 1888-1978

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
Title: Untitled
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1921–1931
Medium: Graphite and lithographic crayon on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right: "G. de Chirico"
Dimensions: 31.9 × 24.6 cm (12 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.311
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

Jean Cocteau, Le Mystère laïc, essai d’étude Indirecte (Giorgio de Chirico), avec cinq dessins de Giorgio de Chirico (Paris, 1928), opp. p. 28 (ill.).
Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco and Paolo Baldacci, Giorgio de Chirico: Parigi, 1924-1929 (Milan, 1982, p. 285 (ill.).
Verona, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea Palazzo Forti, De Chirico: Gli Anni Venti, exh. cat. (1986-87), p. 102 (ill.).
Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Giorgio de Chirico All’Epoca del Surrealismo, exh. cat. (Milan: Dream Gallery, 1991), p. 12 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 26-27, no. 13 (ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Fantastic Drawings,” 1967–1968, no cat.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 136 (ill.), as “Untitled (Figure Among the Ruins).”

Sold by Julien Levy Gallery, New York, to the Richard Feigen Gallery, Inc., New York, 1965 [letter of Feb. 1, 1995, from Sam Trower, Richard L. Feigen and Co., Inc., in curatorial file]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1965; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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