The Eventuality of Destiny

1. Galerie de L’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris, by 1928 [Léonce Rosenberg Archive, negative no. 14-N-902]; sold to Valentine Gallery, New York, 1928 [this and the following according to letter from Julia May Boddewyn, Apr. 9, 1997, in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. Frederic Clay Bartlett, Jr., Chicago, by Nov. 1928 [letter mentioned above]; by descent to his wife, Evelyn Bartlett, Beverly, MA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1956; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Valentine Gallery, Paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, January 23–February 19, 1928, cat. 5, as L’Eventuality du destin.
• New York, Valentine Gallery, December 31, 1928–Jan. 31, 1929.
• New York, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College of the City University, Giorgio de Chirico and America, September 10–October 26, 1996, no. 11.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918–1936, Oct. 1, 2010–Jan. 9, 2011, no cat. no.; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Feb. 21–May 15, 2011 (New York only).
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.

• Galerie de L’Effort Moderne, Bulletin 33 (March 1927), n.p. (ill.).
• McBride, Henry, “Attractions in the Galleries,” New York Sun (January 5, 1929), p. 12, col. 4.
• “Notes of the Month,” Studio International 92:382 (March 1929), p. 59.
• Sweeney, James T., “Two Chiricos Out West,” New York Times (September 15, 1929), sec. 10, p. 18, col. 7.
• Sweeney, J. J., “A Note on Super-realist Painting,” The Arts 16, no. 9 (May 1930), p. 610 (ill.), as Composition.
• Lo Duca, Giuseppe, Giorgio de Chirico (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), cat. 20.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1964-65 (Art Institute, 1965), p. 29, as Neo-Classical Composition.
• Sakraischik, Claudio Bruni, Catalogo Generale Giorgio de Chirico 5:1 (Milan: Electa Editrice, 1971-87), n.p., cat. 320 (ill.), as Figure monumentali.
• Ragghianti, Carlo Ludovico, Il Caso de Chirico: saggi e studi di Carlo L. Ragghianti 1934–1978 (Florence: Critica d’Arte, 1979), p. 73 (ill.), fig. 7, as Nudi antichi.
• Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 37, cat. 1D8, as Neoclassical Composition.
• dell’Arco, Maurizio Fagiolo, and Paolo Baldacci, Giorgio de Chirico: Parigi 1924-1929, dalla nascita del Surrealismo al crollo di Wall Street (Milan: Edizioni Phillipe Daverio, 1982), p. 498 (ill.), cat. 66, as Nus antiques.
• dell’Arco, Maurizio Fagiolo, I Bagni Misteriosi: De Chirico negli anni Tranta-Parigi, Italia, New York (Milan: Berenice, 1991), p. 67 (ill.), cat. 5, as Nus antiques.

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