PIASA is organizing a sale of modern and contemporary art on Wednesday, December 7th.
Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)
Orestes, circa 1985
Estimate: 20000 / 30000 €
The first pictorial reference points for this work are found in 1915 and 1917, with The Philosopher and the Poet and The Apparition, respectively. The bronze version of 1970 combines iconographic quotations from archaeologists with neo-metaphysical elements. Giorgio de Chirico wrote:
"Art was liberated by modern poets and philosophers. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche stand out for their teachings on the profound meaning of the nonsense of life and how this nonsense, if transformed into art, can produce the framework for a truly new, liberated and profound art. The suppression of meaning in art is not an invention by us painters. Nietzsche deserves recognition for being the first to make this discovery; Rimbaud was the first to apply it to poetry; and recognition for being the first to apply it to painting is deserved by non-conceptualists."
Laura Mosconi, De Chirico and the Mediterranean, Rizzoli International Publications, p. 264
Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)
Il poeta solitario, 1970
Estimate: 30000 / 50000 €
