
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Giorgio de Chirico · c. 1926
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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)."
Literature
Published references
- 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.).
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