Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)

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.