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Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Lot 387Property from a Manhattan Private Collection

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)

Sera d'estate

Fermé16 May 2018

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USD 87,500

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Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Sera d'estate
signed 'g. de Chirico' (lower right)
oil on linen
18 ¼ x 21 ¾ in. (46.3 x 55.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1934

Alexandre Hirschberg, Paris (1935).
Private collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 5 December 1983, lot 39.
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired by the present owner, 1995.

Note du spécialiste

The Fondazione de Chirico has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The present work was included in the second exhibition in 1935 of the Quadriennale of Rome, a foundation founded eight years earlier to promote the best of Italian contemporary art. De Chirico was given his own room in the exhibition to display works from the previous two years. It is from this exhibition that Alexandre Hirschberg purchased Sera d’estate, and it passed through two subsequent generations of his family until it was sold for the first time at auction in 1983.