Autumnal Still Life

Prints and Drawings

1917

Giorgio de Chirico
Italian, 1888-1978

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
Title: Autumnal Still Life
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.: 1917
Medium: Graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom edge, right of center, in graphite: "G. de Chirico/917"
Dimensions: 30.2 × 22.1 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1944.585
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings: Old and New,” 1946, p. 11, cat. 9, pl. XXXV, as Autumnal Still Life, 1917.
New York, Wildenstein and Company,”Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17–November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 162.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Harbingers of Surrealism,” February 27–March 27, 1966, n.p., cat. 14.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 5–27, 1974, n.p., cat. 5.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985, p. 136 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled,” June 7, 1991-February 28, 1992.

Sold by Valori Plastici, Rome, to G. Bonetti, May 1927 [letter from Georgette Passedoit to Carl Schniewind of May 16, 1946 in curatorial file]; sold to Passedoit Gallery, New York, c. July 1943 [letter mentioned above]; sold to Theodor Schemmp, New York [letter mentioned above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1944.

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